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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:28,829 --> 00:02:31,362 Old guard, present arms! 2 00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:56,174 New guard... 3 00:02:56,497 --> 00:02:57,731 Halt! 4 00:03:01,563 --> 00:03:02,606 New guard... 5 00:03:02,755 --> 00:03:03,706 Left... 6 00:03:03,987 --> 00:03:05,120 Turn! 7 00:03:06,421 --> 00:03:07,836 New guard... 8 00:03:08,237 --> 00:03:10,413 Slow... march! 9 00:03:11,643 --> 00:03:14,018 New guard... halt! 10 00:03:16,614 --> 00:03:20,234 New guard... present... arms! 11 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,552 Old guard... shoulder... arms! 12 00:03:35,558 --> 00:03:38,545 New guard... shoulder... arms! 13 00:03:40,021 --> 00:03:43,157 Old guard... order... arms! 14 00:03:43,484 --> 00:03:45,992 New guard... stand at... 15 00:03:46,364 --> 00:03:47,431 Ease! 16 00:03:51,952 --> 00:03:53,674 Look! The Prince! 17 00:04:02,978 --> 00:04:04,508 Fine body of men, the guards... 18 00:04:04,536 --> 00:04:06,114 And no soldier in the world like them. 19 00:04:06,157 --> 00:04:07,381 By gad, you're right, sir! 20 00:04:07,408 --> 00:04:10,254 Beer and beef, that's the stuff that makes soldiers. 21 00:04:10,281 --> 00:04:12,632 Besides, it gives a man... a figure 22 00:04:16,694 --> 00:04:18,796 Have you seen today's "Times" sir? 23 00:04:18,911 --> 00:04:19,962 No William. 24 00:04:19,990 --> 00:04:21,696 - The news from Paris. - Yes. 25 00:04:22,093 --> 00:04:24,438 Over 50 people guillotined in one day. 26 00:04:24,558 --> 00:04:26,610 Damnable, useless cruelty. 27 00:04:26,645 --> 00:04:29,958 Well, what can you expect from foreigners with no sporting instinct? 28 00:04:29,992 --> 00:04:32,540 Gad, if it wasn't for our fox hunting and our pheasant shooting... 29 00:04:32,567 --> 00:04:34,423 I dare say we should be cruel too. 30 00:04:34,954 --> 00:04:37,734 Let's hope the scarlet Pimpernel will save some of the rest. 31 00:04:37,766 --> 00:04:40,017 - Do you know who he is, sir? - No. 32 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,533 But I confess, I feel a little prouder... 33 00:04:42,811 --> 00:04:44,690 When I remember that he is an Englishman. 34 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:45,804 Whoever he is... 35 00:04:45,912 --> 00:04:47,717 He'll have his work cut out in Paris. 36 00:04:44,172 --> 00:04:45,644 Did you read this, sir? 37 00:06:31,126 --> 00:06:33,459 There they go again. It's always the same. 38 00:06:33,487 --> 00:06:35,953 The drums roll, the knife falls... 39 00:06:35,997 --> 00:06:39,118 And another aristocrat parts company with his head. 40 00:06:39,945 --> 00:06:41,411 Very monotonous. 41 00:06:41,637 --> 00:06:44,244 And so clumsy, that great ugly machine. 42 00:06:45,972 --> 00:06:48,819 When all they need is a sharper razor. 43 00:06:49,401 --> 00:06:50,974 A quick wrist and flick! 44 00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:52,036 Here, steady! 45 00:06:52,063 --> 00:06:53,753 Ho-ho, you're all right, partner. 46 00:06:54,688 --> 00:06:57,320 I wish they'd give me a few aristocrats to shave. 47 00:06:57,555 --> 00:06:58,494 Eh, Jacques? 48 00:06:58,549 --> 00:07:00,428 Then we should see some sport. 49 00:07:00,455 --> 00:07:01,471 And you would! 50 00:07:01,498 --> 00:07:03,749 When you see me dealing with the Scarlet Pimpernel. 51 00:07:03,784 --> 00:07:05,867 - The what? - The Scarlet Pimpernel! 52 00:07:06,097 --> 00:07:07,669 Haven't you heard? 53 00:07:07,987 --> 00:07:12,265 There's a band of Englishmen helping these cursed aristos out of the country. 54 00:07:12,669 --> 00:07:16,087 Their chief is the only man who ever cheated Madame Guillotine. 55 00:07:18,002 --> 00:07:20,635 He's known by the title of the Scarlet Pimpernel. 56 00:07:21,022 --> 00:07:22,364 Who is he? 57 00:07:22,445 --> 00:07:24,258 Oh... that's the mystery. 58 00:08:05,076 --> 00:08:07,185 So you're a farmer from Nordesque, are you? 59 00:08:07,417 --> 00:08:08,476 Yes, sir. 60 00:08:19,346 --> 00:08:23,535 You thought you could fool me with a disguise like that! 61 00:08:24,103 --> 00:08:26,809 Well, I'll keep this wig of yours... 62 00:08:26,952 --> 00:08:30,213 Because after tomorrow you won't have a head to put it on! 63 00:08:31,736 --> 00:08:34,502 And I shall be delighted to visit Madame Guillotine... 64 00:08:34,529 --> 00:08:39,248 And make the acquaintance of the only decent person left in France. 65 00:08:39,753 --> 00:08:42,947 Captain, I say "Death to the Republic... 66 00:08:42,974 --> 00:08:44,528 and long live the King!" 67 00:08:44,555 --> 00:08:46,153 Take him away! 68 00:08:52,322 --> 00:08:53,688 Stupid fool! 69 00:08:54,469 --> 00:08:57,465 That makes the third aristocrat I've caught this week. 70 00:08:59,129 --> 00:09:01,844 I can smell 'em through any disguise. 71 00:09:35,593 --> 00:09:37,629 Thank heaven for the game of chess. 72 00:09:38,038 --> 00:09:41,637 It enables us to forget the more disagreeable realities of life. 73 00:09:42,311 --> 00:09:44,371 I'm not so sure it is a good thing. 74 00:09:44,596 --> 00:09:47,655 We've been too detached from reality all our lives. 75 00:09:48,034 --> 00:09:49,697 That's what caused the revolution. 76 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:52,067 - Possibly. - Undoubtedly! 77 00:09:52,151 --> 00:09:55,527 If we'd only had eyes to see our own follies, we shouldn't be here now... 78 00:09:55,871 --> 00:09:57,347 Waiting to be shaved... 79 00:09:57,534 --> 00:09:59,107 By the national razor. 80 00:10:01,163 --> 00:10:02,834 Which is the Count de Tournay? 81 00:10:03,245 --> 00:10:04,917 I am the Count de Tournay's daughter. 82 00:10:05,411 --> 00:10:07,422 My father is over there playing the chess. 83 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:09,349 This is my mother. 84 00:10:15,088 --> 00:10:16,635 The Count de Tournay? 85 00:10:21,022 --> 00:10:23,025 If you will look at the passage I have marked... 86 00:10:23,129 --> 00:10:24,661 Your spirits will be uplifted. 87 00:10:24,689 --> 00:10:26,732 We are not afraid to die, Father. 88 00:10:27,046 --> 00:10:29,686 Even so, it is sometimes better to live. 89 00:10:49,521 --> 00:10:51,671 - How many, Captain? - Sixty-four. 90 00:10:51,723 --> 00:10:54,819 Robespierre gives Madame Guillotine extra fodder today. 91 00:10:58,582 --> 00:11:00,626 The former Duc de Tours. 92 00:11:01,589 --> 00:11:03,890 The former Abbé de Saint Preux. 93 00:11:04,429 --> 00:11:07,044 The former Count and Countess de Larnai. 94 00:11:08,050 --> 00:11:09,895 The former Madame de Nijon. 95 00:11:10,397 --> 00:11:12,466 The former Count d'Eterais. 96 00:11:13,188 --> 00:11:15,852 The former Marquis de Jouvence and family. 97 00:11:17,020 --> 00:11:19,412 The former Marquis de Robeaupier. 98 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:21,994 The two Countesses Herret. 99 00:11:22,964 --> 00:11:25,256 The former Mademoiselle de Bournard. 100 00:11:26,209 --> 00:11:29,309 The two former Duchesses Passy and Boniveaux. 101 00:11:30,872 --> 00:11:32,775 The former Marquis de Marais. 102 00:11:33,755 --> 00:11:36,271 The former Count de Tournay and family. 103 00:11:39,074 --> 00:11:41,269 The former Countess de Cherainville. 104 00:11:42,099 --> 00:11:43,987 The former Madame de Piccard. 105 00:11:44,435 --> 00:11:45,404 Come. 106 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:47,719 The former Count d'Arblai. 107 00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:11,125 - Are you de Tournay? - I am. 108 00:12:11,274 --> 00:12:14,448 You are remanded. Citizen Robespierre wants to see you. 109 00:12:14,566 --> 00:12:16,752 - Thank God! - The rest of you, get on! 110 00:12:16,801 --> 00:12:17,848 Take him inside! 111 00:12:17,875 --> 00:12:19,597 Come on! Come on! 112 00:12:46,754 --> 00:12:48,174 Get out of the way! 113 00:12:48,651 --> 00:12:49,793 Get out! 114 00:12:51,632 --> 00:12:53,834 You must have courage, Suzanne. 115 00:12:56,093 --> 00:12:57,368 Remember... 116 00:12:57,395 --> 00:12:59,854 The Scarlet Pimpernel is waiting to save us. 117 00:12:59,881 --> 00:13:02,050 He's never failed to keep his promise. 118 00:13:04,656 --> 00:13:06,338 But it's too late! 119 00:13:20,510 --> 00:13:22,972 Long live the King of France! 120 00:13:26,585 --> 00:13:28,818 Long live the King of France! 121 00:14:22,110 --> 00:14:24,014 Look at me whip, me hearties. 122 00:14:24,157 --> 00:14:25,423 Look at it! 123 00:14:25,466 --> 00:14:27,711 Three and twenty locks of hair in it. 124 00:14:27,866 --> 00:14:29,543 There they are... There's... 125 00:14:29,745 --> 00:14:31,839 There's the Duc de Rouilly. 126 00:14:32,149 --> 00:14:34,475 There's his handsome wife, the Duchess. 127 00:14:34,877 --> 00:14:36,831 And here's the hair of her lover... 128 00:14:36,939 --> 00:14:39,607 - The handsome... - Where's your passport, hag? 129 00:14:39,917 --> 00:14:42,007 He takes me for an aristocrat. 130 00:14:45,474 --> 00:14:47,000 Well, you're right, Captain. 131 00:14:47,107 --> 00:14:49,020 Can't be too careful, can you? 132 00:14:49,387 --> 00:14:52,208 No, you can't be too... Here, here's me passport. 133 00:14:55,904 --> 00:14:59,181 This says "Citizeness Renard and grandson." 134 00:14:59,718 --> 00:15:00,976 Where's the grandson? 135 00:15:01,211 --> 00:15:02,990 He's in the cart, poor darling. 136 00:15:03,017 --> 00:15:05,003 Yes? What's the matter with him? 137 00:15:05,056 --> 00:15:06,632 He's got the plague. 138 00:15:08,183 --> 00:15:10,590 - The horrible black plague. - Plague? 139 00:15:10,617 --> 00:15:11,875 Yes. 140 00:15:12,095 --> 00:15:15,355 I don't think I shall get him alive as far as Chambois. 141 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:18,641 Give me... give me a light from your pipe, will you Captain? 142 00:15:18,668 --> 00:15:20,173 Keep away from me with your plague! 143 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,359 Get out of here, quick! 144 00:15:21,386 --> 00:15:23,224 And when you come back, try to pass another gate. 145 00:15:23,251 --> 00:15:24,978 For you won't pass through this one again! 146 00:15:25,006 --> 00:15:27,014 You are right, Captain. You are right. 147 00:15:27,059 --> 00:15:30,141 But I'll be back... somehow. 148 00:15:54,176 --> 00:15:56,361 - Who's in charge here? - I am. 149 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,091 An old hag of a woman will pass this way in a cart. 150 00:15:59,146 --> 00:16:01,158 You are to stop her, and arrest her. 151 00:16:01,533 --> 00:16:03,481 Did you say an old hag? 152 00:16:03,942 --> 00:16:05,002 You heard me. 153 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:07,854 But, but she passed through here some time ago. 154 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,504 - Her passport was... - You miserable fool! 155 00:16:10,557 --> 00:16:13,245 You blundering idiot! Did you search the cart? 156 00:16:13,735 --> 00:16:17,471 No, no, I... her grandson was inside with the plague. 157 00:16:17,528 --> 00:16:21,030 - Would you expect me to expose... - You were expected to use your brains! 158 00:16:21,347 --> 00:16:23,012 Now I see you haven't any! 159 00:16:23,062 --> 00:16:27,147 That sick grandson was really three aristocrats snatched from the guillotine! 160 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,282 Ten thousand hells! 161 00:16:29,686 --> 00:16:31,382 And the old hag, who was she? 162 00:16:31,465 --> 00:16:33,858 The old hag, my clever Captain... 163 00:16:34,037 --> 00:16:36,789 Was that cursed Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel. 164 00:16:37,518 --> 00:16:40,249 - Forward, we'll catch him this time! - Open the gates! 165 00:17:49,173 --> 00:17:50,331 What's that? 166 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:51,919 What? 167 00:17:54,778 --> 00:17:56,605 Sounds like a troop of horsemen. 168 00:18:00,127 --> 00:18:01,650 We're being pursued! 169 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:30,652 Don't be frightened, Ladies. You are among friends. 170 00:18:30,679 --> 00:18:33,748 - But this soldiers? - My friends, Mademoiselle, and yours. 171 00:18:33,777 --> 00:18:35,471 Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel? 172 00:18:35,498 --> 00:18:38,040 I am only a humble instrument in the hands of our great leader. 173 00:18:38,067 --> 00:18:40,003 - How many are you? - Twenty, madam. 174 00:18:40,030 --> 00:18:41,701 One to command, nineteen to obey. 175 00:18:41,728 --> 00:18:44,550 - Shall we see your leader? - I'm sorry, I must ask you to hurry. 176 00:19:19,350 --> 00:19:21,517 - Where's de Tournay? - Taken back into prison. 177 00:19:21,544 --> 00:19:22,744 - Why? - We don't know. 178 00:19:22,771 --> 00:19:24,277 So we have to come back and take him. 179 00:19:24,544 --> 00:19:26,547 - How are things at Calais? - Lawson's there. 180 00:19:26,574 --> 00:19:28,423 - And Ashurst? - He hadn't arrived when we left. 181 00:19:28,450 --> 00:19:29,184 Oh hadn't he? 182 00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:30,889 His time sense is defective... that's twice. 183 00:19:30,933 --> 00:19:32,075 They may have arrested him. 184 00:19:32,102 --> 00:19:34,011 They're very careful at the Channel ports nowadays. 185 00:19:34,038 --> 00:19:35,983 My order to you is that you're not to be arrested. 186 00:19:36,010 --> 00:19:37,666 And I expect my orders to be obeyed. 187 00:19:37,693 --> 00:19:38,845 Yes Percy. 188 00:19:39,352 --> 00:19:41,040 You, Wilmot and Grant go back to Paris. 189 00:19:41,067 --> 00:19:42,576 My brother-in-law will follow you there. 190 00:19:43,212 --> 00:19:45,486 All three of you will get your next instructions from Quentin. 191 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:47,058 Well, goodbye. 192 00:19:47,109 --> 00:19:48,799 And remember... don't get caught. 193 00:19:48,826 --> 00:19:50,166 - Right. - Right. 194 00:19:50,255 --> 00:19:52,024 - Good luck! - Goodbye. 195 00:19:52,059 --> 00:19:53,234 Go! 196 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:57,617 Giddap! 197 00:20:11,107 --> 00:20:12,174 Well... 198 00:20:13,211 --> 00:20:15,015 Why did they keep de Tournay back? 199 00:20:15,042 --> 00:20:17,113 Because Robespierre wanted to see him. 200 00:20:17,221 --> 00:20:20,143 And Robespierre wants to see him because the Ambassador of the Republic, 201 00:20:20,171 --> 00:20:21,371 has come over from London. 202 00:20:21,412 --> 00:20:22,515 Chauvelin? 203 00:20:22,548 --> 00:20:23,459 Why? 204 00:20:23,486 --> 00:20:25,264 All in your honor, Percy. 205 00:20:25,296 --> 00:20:28,107 Your work is becoming even more dangerous than it was. 206 00:20:28,134 --> 00:20:29,662 Our work, Armand. 207 00:20:31,273 --> 00:20:32,747 You go back to Paris at once. 208 00:20:33,364 --> 00:20:35,483 Find out everything you can about Chauvelin 209 00:20:35,626 --> 00:20:37,385 If he goes to London, you go too. 210 00:20:38,615 --> 00:20:40,477 Our most dangerous enemy... 211 00:20:40,967 --> 00:20:42,622 Is citizen Chauvelin. 212 00:20:56,592 --> 00:20:57,875 Citizen Chauvelin. 213 00:20:58,067 --> 00:20:59,133 Citizen Chauvelin! 214 00:21:03,052 --> 00:21:05,253 My dear Chauvelin, I'm very sorry that I have to ask you 215 00:21:05,295 --> 00:21:07,372 to undertake the journey to London. 216 00:21:07,742 --> 00:21:11,177 But this matter of the Scarlet Pimpernel has become a national menace. 217 00:21:13,742 --> 00:21:15,423 How can you expect me to detect him 218 00:21:15,450 --> 00:21:17,095 in a country that hates us like the devil 219 00:21:17,122 --> 00:21:18,769 and puts every obstacle in my way? 220 00:21:18,796 --> 00:21:20,947 We expect you to overcome obstacles 221 00:21:21,332 --> 00:21:23,202 like our generals in the field. 222 00:21:23,578 --> 00:21:26,466 They know that to lose the battle means the guillotine. 223 00:21:27,224 --> 00:21:28,721 Have you any plans? 224 00:21:30,448 --> 00:21:31,565 Naturally. 225 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,515 We may assume that the Scarlet Pimpernel and his gang... 226 00:21:35,580 --> 00:21:36,895 speaks perfect French. 227 00:21:37,807 --> 00:21:40,275 They belong therefore to a class that has been brought up 228 00:21:40,302 --> 00:21:42,205 by French nurses and French tutors. 229 00:21:42,373 --> 00:21:43,775 So far not bad. 230 00:21:44,377 --> 00:21:46,330 I have a list of all the likely names. 231 00:21:46,952 --> 00:21:48,625 I have them watched day and night. 232 00:21:48,677 --> 00:21:50,630 Sooner or later, I'll draw the net. 233 00:21:50,806 --> 00:21:52,975 You think de Tournay might be useful? 234 00:21:53,217 --> 00:21:54,346 Possibly. 235 00:21:59,105 --> 00:22:00,188 De Tournay, 236 00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:08,175 the former Count de Tournay 237 00:22:08,241 --> 00:22:11,277 Former Ambassador to the former King of France in London. 238 00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:12,994 Citizen Chauvelin 239 00:22:13,021 --> 00:22:15,455 Ambassador of the French Republic in London. 240 00:22:15,812 --> 00:22:17,633 De Tournay, I want to make you an offer. 241 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:19,993 We offer you your life. 242 00:22:21,148 --> 00:22:22,828 All we ask in return... 243 00:22:22,871 --> 00:22:25,522 is that you merely get in touch with your many English friends... 244 00:22:25,544 --> 00:22:27,134 and soon you will be able to tell us 245 00:22:27,161 --> 00:22:29,939 who is the man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. 246 00:22:29,990 --> 00:22:31,852 You want me to be a spy? 247 00:22:32,203 --> 00:22:35,148 You have been too long in politics not to be a realist. 248 00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:37,307 A little piece of information... 249 00:22:37,538 --> 00:22:38,761 we give you your life. 250 00:22:38,788 --> 00:22:40,252 God gave me my life... 251 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:42,736 He will take it away as soon as it pleases Him. 252 00:22:43,885 --> 00:22:46,415 And now my family has gone to the guillotine... 253 00:22:46,444 --> 00:22:48,092 My one wish is to follow. 254 00:22:50,672 --> 00:22:54,178 Would it alter your outlook to hear that your family is alive? 255 00:22:54,264 --> 00:22:55,662 Don't trifle with me. 256 00:22:55,707 --> 00:22:58,924 I sent them to the guillotine for the future happiness of the human race... 257 00:22:59,021 --> 00:23:00,515 But I do not allow torture. 258 00:23:00,542 --> 00:23:01,516 Where are they? 259 00:23:01,575 --> 00:23:03,859 I saw them being dragged towards the tumbrel. 260 00:23:04,018 --> 00:23:05,322 On their way to the guillotine 261 00:23:05,349 --> 00:23:07,539 the band of the Scarlet Pimpernel snatched them away. 262 00:23:07,566 --> 00:23:08,766 Where are they? 263 00:23:08,793 --> 00:23:11,227 Probably in England by this time. 264 00:23:21,269 --> 00:23:23,926 To His Majesty King George III. 265 00:23:24,158 --> 00:23:27,607 God bless him for his hospitality to us poor exiles. 266 00:23:30,494 --> 00:23:32,074 To King Louis of France... 267 00:23:32,285 --> 00:23:34,030 May God protect him. 268 00:23:38,193 --> 00:23:39,839 And to your husband, madam. 269 00:23:40,508 --> 00:23:42,644 I hope the Scarlet Pimpernel and you gentlemen 270 00:23:42,678 --> 00:23:44,516 will rescue him, as you did us. 271 00:23:45,311 --> 00:23:46,825 The Scarlet Pimpernel... 272 00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,577 What a droll name... What does it mean? 273 00:23:49,604 --> 00:23:51,889 It is a humble wayside flower, mademoiselle. 274 00:23:52,290 --> 00:23:55,484 And it hides the identity of the best and bravest man in all the world. 275 00:23:55,778 --> 00:23:58,011 Do you know, Sir Andrew, my best friend in London 276 00:23:58,038 --> 00:23:59,296 Marguerite St. Just? 277 00:23:59,323 --> 00:24:00,912 Suzanne, how often am I to tell you 278 00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:03,513 I will not have that woman's name mentioned in my presence. 279 00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:05,974 But mother, you can't believe that dreadful story. 280 00:24:06,006 --> 00:24:08,109 - What story? - It's the truth. 281 00:24:08,136 --> 00:24:09,389 Marguerite St. Just... 282 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,691 Denounced the Marquis de St. Cyr and his family to the tribunal. 283 00:24:12,816 --> 00:24:14,605 They all went to the guillotine. 284 00:24:14,879 --> 00:24:17,420 - Marguerite St. Just? - Yes. 285 00:24:17,859 --> 00:24:19,458 She married an Englishman. 286 00:24:19,664 --> 00:24:20,918 Do you know her? 287 00:24:20,945 --> 00:24:22,388 Know her? 288 00:24:22,613 --> 00:24:25,017 Everybody in London knows Lady Blakeney. 289 00:24:41,723 --> 00:24:44,512 Lady Blakeney, have you something in your mouth? 290 00:24:46,393 --> 00:24:48,100 Not now, Mr. Romney. 291 00:24:48,191 --> 00:24:50,684 I can't do justice to that lovely face 292 00:24:50,718 --> 00:24:52,530 when it's all bulged out with bonbon. 293 00:24:52,567 --> 00:24:54,800 You may talk if you like, but no bonbon! 294 00:24:55,226 --> 00:24:57,260 And no gestures, please! 295 00:24:58,459 --> 00:24:59,845 All right, Mr. Romney. 296 00:25:03,636 --> 00:25:07,111 I'll tell you what it is about the Pimpernel that tantalizes me so. 297 00:25:07,268 --> 00:25:09,184 It is his insufferable modesty. 298 00:25:09,314 --> 00:25:10,813 There's no excuse for it! 299 00:25:11,324 --> 00:25:14,243 It's maddening to think that somewhere there's a man as marvelous as that. 300 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,628 And we never see him! 301 00:25:15,656 --> 00:25:17,351 He is of no use to us whatever! 302 00:25:17,378 --> 00:25:20,358 Lady Blakeney, I said no gestures, please! 303 00:25:20,387 --> 00:25:23,126 Oh, you must remember that I am a French woman... 304 00:25:23,161 --> 00:25:25,743 and when I talk I must use these as well as this. 305 00:25:34,850 --> 00:25:37,101 The de Tournay family arrived in Dover today. 306 00:25:37,128 --> 00:25:38,652 All except the father. 307 00:25:38,732 --> 00:25:40,353 We have to go back for him. 308 00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:42,908 It's going to be devilish awkward after what's happened. 309 00:25:43,037 --> 00:25:45,396 Well I'll go. So will Hastings if you'll let us. 310 00:25:45,441 --> 00:25:47,204 We will all go if it comes to that. 311 00:25:47,281 --> 00:25:49,135 But even so, we're only 20. 312 00:25:49,269 --> 00:25:51,471 Yesterday, 30 people went to the guillotine. 313 00:25:51,556 --> 00:25:53,616 Are you trying to suggest that there aren't enough of us? 314 00:25:53,644 --> 00:25:55,070 Perhaps that there isn't a decent Englishman 315 00:25:55,156 --> 00:25:56,780 that wouldn't be proud to join us. 316 00:25:56,827 --> 00:25:59,390 We could be 500, a thousand within a week. 317 00:25:59,518 --> 00:26:02,630 And within another week everyone of us would be a marked man. 318 00:26:03,196 --> 00:26:05,541 We shouldn't be able to rescue a single soul. 319 00:26:06,534 --> 00:26:08,203 Mere force is useless against people 320 00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:09,935 who are neither cowards nor fools. 321 00:26:10,025 --> 00:26:11,986 We must match courage with courage... 322 00:26:12,161 --> 00:26:15,222 and cunning with still greater cunning if we're going to do anything at all. 323 00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:17,385 We are all willing to give our lives. 324 00:26:17,497 --> 00:26:19,044 But we must do more than that. 325 00:26:19,217 --> 00:26:21,004 We must mask our identities... 326 00:26:21,214 --> 00:26:23,110 Suffer the humiliation of being taken 327 00:26:23,137 --> 00:26:26,643 for fops, fools, nitwits... cowards 328 00:26:27,246 --> 00:26:30,523 So many people die every day that could be saved. 329 00:26:30,568 --> 00:26:32,248 You think I don't feel that? 330 00:26:32,568 --> 00:26:35,241 You think I like sitting there in the shadow of the knife... 331 00:26:35,417 --> 00:26:37,491 while one head falls after another? 332 00:26:37,575 --> 00:26:39,379 People I know and love. 333 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,534 Innocent people... kindly people... 334 00:26:41,830 --> 00:26:43,502 Herded like sheep... 335 00:26:44,009 --> 00:26:45,536 butchered like cattle... 336 00:26:45,732 --> 00:26:48,557 by men who make high-sounding principles and excuses 337 00:26:48,584 --> 00:26:50,363 for the most bestial cruelty. 338 00:26:50,497 --> 00:26:53,555 Robespierre's liberty, his equality... 339 00:26:57,379 --> 00:26:58,911 Well... 340 00:26:59,269 --> 00:27:02,287 sink me, if it isn't Colonel Ramsbottom. 341 00:27:04,943 --> 00:27:07,112 Well. how are you Ramsbottom? 342 00:27:07,515 --> 00:27:09,113 Winterbottom, Sir! 343 00:27:12,019 --> 00:27:14,592 Ramsbottom... what a ridiculous mistake... 344 00:27:17,718 --> 00:27:19,683 Allow me to explain, Colonel... 345 00:27:20,114 --> 00:27:21,929 Here's that ass, Blakeney! 346 00:27:22,370 --> 00:27:23,707 I'm off! 347 00:27:34,112 --> 00:27:36,682 Odd's blood, this club wants cheering up. 348 00:27:37,210 --> 00:27:39,458 Sink me, the place is a mausoleum. 349 00:27:39,808 --> 00:27:41,426 Are you being offensive, Sir? 350 00:27:41,453 --> 00:27:43,342 Who Sir? Me, sir? No, sir! 351 00:27:44,398 --> 00:27:47,030 Stab me. I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. 352 00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:49,407 Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece? 353 00:27:49,434 --> 00:27:50,833 - Who, sir? You, sir? - Me, sir! 354 00:27:50,860 --> 00:27:51,994 - No, sir! - Yes, sir! 355 00:27:52,041 --> 00:27:54,318 All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. 356 00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:56,300 How it came to me, heaven only knows 357 00:27:56,321 --> 00:27:58,100 because it was the busiest moment of the day... 358 00:27:58,135 --> 00:27:59,878 Darn, I was tying my cravat. 359 00:27:59,956 --> 00:28:01,537 Oh well, here it is. 360 00:28:02,590 --> 00:28:04,188 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 361 00:28:04,215 --> 00:28:06,550 by Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet. 362 00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:08,399 - What? - Well, that's the title. 363 00:28:08,756 --> 00:28:10,072 "They seek him here, 364 00:28:10,138 --> 00:28:11,545 "they seek him there. 365 00:28:11,579 --> 00:28:13,995 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 366 00:28:14,521 --> 00:28:16,417 "Is he in heaven? 367 00:28:16,516 --> 00:28:18,145 "Is he in hell? 368 00:28:18,434 --> 00:28:20,929 That damned, elusive Pimpernel." 369 00:28:20,974 --> 00:28:21,872 What? 370 00:28:21,899 --> 00:28:23,150 Hmm, not bad! 371 00:28:23,178 --> 00:28:24,649 Not bad? It's damned good! 372 00:28:24,690 --> 00:28:27,001 I'll write it out, then you can all learn it. 373 00:28:27,370 --> 00:28:28,492 Yes... 374 00:28:28,927 --> 00:28:31,375 Well... Good day, gentlemen. 375 00:28:31,586 --> 00:28:33,272 Goodbye. Higgenbottom. 376 00:28:33,299 --> 00:28:34,642 Winterbottom, curse you! 377 00:28:34,669 --> 00:28:37,077 I beg your pardon? Didn't I say Winterbottom? 378 00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:39,054 Bunch of young jackanapes! 379 00:28:41,211 --> 00:28:43,936 They're all alike, this fashionable puppies. 380 00:28:44,068 --> 00:28:45,435 Insufferable! 381 00:28:45,594 --> 00:28:47,016 What that young man needs... 382 00:28:47,053 --> 00:28:49,196 Is a year or two of hard campaigning. 383 00:28:49,223 --> 00:28:50,777 Facing powder... 384 00:28:52,494 --> 00:28:53,694 and shot... 385 00:28:53,855 --> 00:28:55,436 undergoing privation. 386 00:28:55,471 --> 00:28:58,655 I can't imagine Blakeney running into much danger. 387 00:28:59,535 --> 00:29:00,817 Not he! 388 00:29:01,592 --> 00:29:03,421 He doesn't belong to our vintage. 389 00:29:05,030 --> 00:29:05,963 It's not my fault! 390 00:29:05,990 --> 00:29:08,084 It's a matter of infinitely small importance to me... 391 00:29:08,111 --> 00:29:09,383 whose fault it is. 392 00:29:10,409 --> 00:29:12,773 The man who could put starch in my jabot... 393 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,987 Is equally capable of putting poison in my coffee. 394 00:29:18,922 --> 00:29:19,832 There, you see? 395 00:29:19,859 --> 00:29:22,273 I'm a laughingstock, and rightly so. 396 00:29:22,607 --> 00:29:24,312 Look at the cursed thing. 397 00:29:24,339 --> 00:29:26,382 Sticking out like a barber's pole. 398 00:29:26,697 --> 00:29:28,728 Sink me, the thing is a disaster. 399 00:29:29,837 --> 00:29:31,949 Go away, Brinker, you dreadful fellow. 400 00:29:32,327 --> 00:29:33,775 Ladies... 401 00:29:33,809 --> 00:29:35,232 Your servant. 402 00:29:35,629 --> 00:29:37,003 Marguerite... 403 00:29:37,578 --> 00:29:38,783 your slave. 404 00:29:42,172 --> 00:29:43,689 Ah, Romney. 405 00:29:44,194 --> 00:29:45,418 How are you? 406 00:29:45,543 --> 00:29:47,548 And how is the portrait progressing? 407 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,482 The eyes are wrong, aren't they? 408 00:29:58,257 --> 00:30:00,836 And is the nose all right? 409 00:30:05,525 --> 00:30:06,502 You know... 410 00:30:06,529 --> 00:30:08,606 I rather think you missed the mouth... 411 00:30:08,633 --> 00:30:09,800 altogether. 412 00:30:11,154 --> 00:30:12,642 Yes, you have. 413 00:30:13,218 --> 00:30:15,526 Otherwise, it's the image of her. 414 00:30:17,712 --> 00:30:19,470 I think that will be enough for today. 415 00:30:19,488 --> 00:30:20,835 Poor Mr. Romney. 416 00:30:21,135 --> 00:30:22,673 You are tired, and so am I. 417 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:23,575 Tired? 418 00:30:23,618 --> 00:30:25,282 Zounds, me too. 419 00:30:25,482 --> 00:30:26,841 You know, dear lady... 420 00:30:26,899 --> 00:30:29,848 I've just been to Bath to be cured of the fatigue. 421 00:30:30,835 --> 00:30:33,394 And now I'm so fatigued by the cure that I... 422 00:30:33,642 --> 00:30:36,400 I really think that I shall have to go to Bath again... 423 00:30:36,676 --> 00:30:38,281 to be cured of the fatigue. 424 00:30:41,223 --> 00:30:42,796 It has been a charming party. 425 00:30:42,832 --> 00:30:44,371 - Goodbye! - Goodbye. 426 00:30:44,463 --> 00:30:45,958 - Goodbye. - Goodbye! 427 00:30:46,054 --> 00:30:47,874 Bye, Lady Blakeney, thank you. 428 00:30:47,998 --> 00:30:49,310 Bye, Sir Percy... 429 00:30:52,369 --> 00:30:54,049 Goodbye, Sir Percy... 430 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:03,515 Goodbye, Sir Percy! 431 00:31:03,542 --> 00:31:05,199 Goodbye, Goodbye... 432 00:31:05,602 --> 00:31:07,026 Goodbye... 433 00:31:34,391 --> 00:31:35,831 What do you think of it? 434 00:31:37,023 --> 00:31:38,422 It's clever... 435 00:31:38,885 --> 00:31:40,739 But there's something lacking. 436 00:31:41,121 --> 00:31:42,138 What? 437 00:31:42,804 --> 00:31:44,027 I don't know. 438 00:31:44,834 --> 00:31:46,241 There's a look... 439 00:31:46,356 --> 00:31:48,052 A look in the eyes... 440 00:31:48,858 --> 00:31:50,136 He's lost it. 441 00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:54,160 Perhaps, I've lost it. 442 00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:00,175 Perhaps it was happiness. 443 00:32:01,455 --> 00:32:02,954 Good gad, my dear! 444 00:32:03,003 --> 00:32:05,485 How you could be unhappy. I can't imagine. 445 00:32:06,192 --> 00:32:07,291 Can't you? 446 00:32:08,432 --> 00:32:10,501 Percy... Can't you? 447 00:32:10,528 --> 00:32:12,515 Oh, cursed if I can. 448 00:32:12,796 --> 00:32:15,506 Why, you're the most courted woman in town. 449 00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:17,706 - By whom? - By everybody. 450 00:32:17,752 --> 00:32:18,984 Except you! 451 00:32:19,053 --> 00:32:21,450 Dear me, my dear, I'm your husband. 452 00:32:23,244 --> 00:32:25,718 Months after we were married, we were still happy... 453 00:32:26,003 --> 00:32:27,872 And then came this... 454 00:32:28,093 --> 00:32:29,516 Estrangement. 455 00:32:29,725 --> 00:32:32,105 Which Heaven knows, is none of my making. 456 00:32:32,198 --> 00:32:33,892 Can you honestly say that? 457 00:32:33,946 --> 00:32:36,335 Can you honestly deny that you've changed? 458 00:32:38,392 --> 00:32:39,601 So changed... 459 00:32:39,628 --> 00:32:41,298 That I scarcely know you. 460 00:32:42,472 --> 00:32:44,205 You're never with me now. 461 00:32:45,247 --> 00:32:47,730 You're always away on some pretext or other. 462 00:32:51,084 --> 00:32:52,594 I'm always alone. 463 00:32:57,693 --> 00:33:00,294 Then I've mighty good news for you, my dear. 464 00:33:00,891 --> 00:33:02,959 Your brother's arriving from Paris. 465 00:33:03,110 --> 00:33:04,725 - Armand? - Yes. 466 00:33:04,896 --> 00:33:05,862 When? 467 00:33:05,889 --> 00:33:07,114 At any moment. 468 00:33:07,698 --> 00:33:10,446 And then you won't be alone, will you? 469 00:33:14,288 --> 00:33:15,787 When am I going to see you again? 470 00:33:15,822 --> 00:33:17,292 Whenever you wish to. 471 00:33:17,613 --> 00:33:19,274 Well then, every day. 472 00:33:19,301 --> 00:33:20,374 Suzanne! 473 00:33:57,194 --> 00:33:58,676 Where's the chief? 474 00:34:00,191 --> 00:34:02,725 He went to town yesterday as soon as he arrived here. 475 00:34:02,752 --> 00:34:04,316 - Any order for us? - Yes... 476 00:34:04,476 --> 00:34:07,215 We have to wait here till tonight for a message from Armand St. Just. 477 00:34:07,242 --> 00:34:08,200 Right. 478 00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:22,566 - Did you follow them? - Yes. 479 00:34:22,854 --> 00:34:25,292 A sailor gave a letter to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 480 00:34:25,382 --> 00:34:26,583 Did you get it? 481 00:34:26,615 --> 00:34:28,105 It wasn't easy, but... 482 00:34:28,459 --> 00:34:30,231 We had six men there. 483 00:34:31,243 --> 00:34:32,518 Where are they now? 484 00:34:32,553 --> 00:34:34,256 Gagged and bound on the ship. 485 00:34:34,315 --> 00:34:35,524 And the letter? 486 00:34:47,478 --> 00:34:48,638 You will release them tomorrow. 487 00:34:48,665 --> 00:34:50,234 Watch every move they make. 488 00:35:04,687 --> 00:35:05,896 Maurier... 489 00:35:05,957 --> 00:35:07,315 Go over to France at once. 490 00:35:07,342 --> 00:35:09,392 The moment St. Just returns, arrest him. 491 00:35:11,624 --> 00:35:13,346 Armand St. Just. 492 00:35:15,481 --> 00:35:17,327 Marguerite St. Just... 493 00:35:19,335 --> 00:35:20,941 The famous actress... 494 00:35:22,546 --> 00:35:25,646 She will give a great performance by Republican command... 495 00:35:26,382 --> 00:35:28,211 For her brother's sake. 496 00:35:30,419 --> 00:35:33,171 Percy, I don't want Armand to go back to France. 497 00:35:33,382 --> 00:35:35,844 If you'll help me we can keep him in England. 498 00:35:36,992 --> 00:35:39,390 He'll settle down here, marry a nice girl... 499 00:35:39,619 --> 00:35:41,283 And have lovely children. 500 00:35:42,321 --> 00:35:44,006 What a dreadful prospect. 501 00:35:44,632 --> 00:35:47,914 What has poor Armand done to be sentenced to matrimony? 502 00:35:48,773 --> 00:35:50,981 You should know better, my dear. 503 00:36:06,977 --> 00:36:08,978 You're unhappy... Why? 504 00:36:10,788 --> 00:36:12,888 Armand, I have the satisfaction of knowing 505 00:36:12,915 --> 00:36:14,338 that the biggest fool in England 506 00:36:14,365 --> 00:36:16,674 has the most complete contempt for his wife. 507 00:36:16,708 --> 00:36:18,946 Percy? How did it happen? 508 00:36:20,883 --> 00:36:22,298 I don't know. 509 00:36:23,703 --> 00:36:25,738 I only know that when I married him 510 00:36:25,765 --> 00:36:26,987 he was a man. 511 00:36:27,373 --> 00:36:28,868 He was my lover. 512 00:36:29,657 --> 00:36:31,894 I was glad to give up everything for him. 513 00:36:33,797 --> 00:36:35,156 And now... 514 00:36:37,375 --> 00:36:39,010 You mustn't leave me, Armand! 515 00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:41,186 I need you... I'm all alone. 516 00:36:41,262 --> 00:36:42,752 I can't stay. 517 00:36:42,753 --> 00:36:44,248 You're going back to France? 518 00:36:44,275 --> 00:36:45,328 But it's not safe! 519 00:36:45,355 --> 00:36:47,073 For me? I'm no aristocrat. 520 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:48,947 For anyone under the terror. 521 00:36:48,982 --> 00:36:51,336 I shall look after the Blakeney estate in France. 522 00:36:51,404 --> 00:36:53,966 Oh, Percy is so rich! What does it mean to him? 523 00:36:55,078 --> 00:36:57,643 He is not even interested in his English estates. 524 00:36:58,835 --> 00:37:00,416 Since the terror he wouldn't go over to France 525 00:37:00,443 --> 00:37:02,421 for all the treasures in the world. 526 00:37:02,581 --> 00:37:04,696 Why should you risk your life for his money? 527 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:06,510 Oh, I don't risk my life. 528 00:37:07,473 --> 00:37:09,038 Don't worry, darling. 529 00:37:22,185 --> 00:37:23,226 Percy? 530 00:37:23,261 --> 00:37:24,815 May I ask you something? 531 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,418 What's happened to you and Marguerite? 532 00:37:29,544 --> 00:37:31,145 Marriage, I suppose. 533 00:37:31,234 --> 00:37:32,330 Why? 534 00:37:33,048 --> 00:37:35,220 You loved her once... I know. 535 00:37:37,149 --> 00:37:39,863 Do you remember the first family to go to the guillotine? 536 00:37:39,967 --> 00:37:41,207 The St. Cyrs. 537 00:37:42,314 --> 00:37:44,978 They told me it was Marguerite who denounced them. 538 00:37:45,005 --> 00:37:46,351 It was a lie! 539 00:37:47,784 --> 00:37:49,232 I wish I could believe that. 540 00:37:49,426 --> 00:37:50,808 Did you ask her? 541 00:37:50,843 --> 00:37:52,018 I did. 542 00:37:52,950 --> 00:37:54,250 She flashed back a "yes" 543 00:37:54,277 --> 00:37:56,460 as sharp as the knife of the guillotine. 544 00:37:59,614 --> 00:38:01,230 I watched that execution. 545 00:38:02,085 --> 00:38:03,351 The Marquis... 546 00:38:03,748 --> 00:38:04,956 His wife... 547 00:38:05,050 --> 00:38:06,341 His son. 548 00:38:08,323 --> 00:38:09,612 And it was my wife... 549 00:38:10,586 --> 00:38:11,959 Who put them there. 550 00:38:14,531 --> 00:38:16,731 So that's why you ceased to love her. 551 00:38:17,998 --> 00:38:19,400 What a tragedy. 552 00:38:20,114 --> 00:38:21,438 Ceased? 553 00:38:22,184 --> 00:38:24,074 I shall love her till I die. 554 00:38:25,027 --> 00:38:26,440 That's the tragedy. 555 00:38:30,156 --> 00:38:32,605 And it's to make up what she did to them... 556 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,452 That you risk your own life 557 00:38:34,479 --> 00:38:36,672 week after week to rescue the others? 558 00:38:37,678 --> 00:38:39,381 Don't be so heroic, Armand. 559 00:38:39,605 --> 00:38:42,511 I got a smack in the eye, and I took refuge in sport. 560 00:38:42,664 --> 00:38:44,177 And what a sport! 561 00:38:44,450 --> 00:38:45,653 By gad, 562 00:38:45,672 --> 00:38:48,337 I think I shall give up fox hunting this winter. 563 00:38:58,694 --> 00:39:00,624 Now, what do you think of it? 564 00:39:01,326 --> 00:39:02,659 Monstrous fine, sir! 565 00:39:02,694 --> 00:39:04,117 Vastly becoming. 566 00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:06,968 Now, there's a coat you could wear with comfort. 567 00:39:07,009 --> 00:39:09,434 You know perfectly well I can wear nothing with comfort... 568 00:39:09,462 --> 00:39:11,018 Until Sir Percy says so. 569 00:39:11,086 --> 00:39:12,781 Where is that jackanapes? 570 00:39:12,866 --> 00:39:13,950 Who. sir? 571 00:39:13,985 --> 00:39:15,149 You, sir! 572 00:39:15,219 --> 00:39:16,320 Here, sir! 573 00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:19,288 And now, tell Treadle what... 574 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:20,998 What's wrong with this coat. 575 00:39:27,983 --> 00:39:29,507 The back is admirable. 576 00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:31,575 The front's fair. 577 00:39:32,344 --> 00:39:34,551 The collar is. uh, possible. 578 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,939 But the sleeve. Treadle. 579 00:39:38,347 --> 00:39:40,816 The cuff, my poor, benighted friend... 580 00:39:40,843 --> 00:39:43,110 That, Sir Percy, is the last words in cuffs! 581 00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:44,555 Oh, gad, I should hope so 582 00:39:44,582 --> 00:39:46,357 for there should never be another like it! 583 00:39:47,342 --> 00:39:49,751 Oh, come now, it's... It's not too bad. 584 00:39:49,778 --> 00:39:51,856 You see, Sir Percy, His Royal Highness approves. 585 00:39:51,883 --> 00:39:54,518 My poor Treadle, His Royal Highness does nothing of the kind. 586 00:39:54,545 --> 00:39:56,274 He says it's "not so bad". 587 00:39:56,354 --> 00:39:58,552 And nothing in the world is "so bad"... 588 00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:01,103 As something which is "not so bad". 589 00:40:01,130 --> 00:40:03,010 - But Sir Percy... - It's a crime, Treadle. 590 00:40:03,037 --> 00:40:04,201 Worse, a blunder. 591 00:40:04,230 --> 00:40:06,994 And quite, quite fatal to my reputation. 592 00:40:07,087 --> 00:40:08,660 Why to your reputation? 593 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,986 Because all the world knows that His Royal Highness 594 00:40:11,013 --> 00:40:12,627 is guided by my taste. 595 00:40:12,637 --> 00:40:15,230 Yes, yes, yes... Percy is an expert on coats. 596 00:40:15,257 --> 00:40:16,467 And britches, sir! 597 00:40:16,494 --> 00:40:18,502 I'm a very wonder with the inexpressibles. 598 00:40:18,529 --> 00:40:19,520 Isn't that so, Treadle? 599 00:40:19,547 --> 00:40:21,441 Well, yes, up to a point. 600 00:40:21,471 --> 00:40:24,359 Zounds, Treadle... Why must you be so cursed jealous? 601 00:40:24,368 --> 00:40:26,187 Look at that puny sleeve... 602 00:40:26,214 --> 00:40:28,258 That miserable dishrag of lace. 603 00:40:28,279 --> 00:40:29,181 Odd's fish! 604 00:40:29,209 --> 00:40:30,764 Looks like the lining hanging down. 605 00:40:30,792 --> 00:40:32,533 It was only intended for a plain cut. 606 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,910 Plain! it's as ugly as a parson's widow. 607 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,404 Open up your sleeves, man. 608 00:40:36,432 --> 00:40:37,952 Let your ruffles take the air. 609 00:40:37,979 --> 00:40:39,757 Let them flow, let them ripple. 610 00:40:39,878 --> 00:40:42,285 So that when His Royal Highness takes snuff... 611 00:40:42,312 --> 00:40:44,495 It'll be a swallows flight. 612 00:40:44,832 --> 00:40:46,029 That's it! 613 00:40:46,103 --> 00:40:48,004 Why, Timmy Percy... 614 00:40:48,031 --> 00:40:51,073 You're brainless, spineless, useless 615 00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:52,821 But you do know clothes. 616 00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:55,621 Odd's fish! That... That’s something, isn't it, sir? 617 00:40:55,962 --> 00:40:56,988 - Treadle! Treadle! 618 00:40:57,015 --> 00:40:57,737 Yes, Your Highness! 619 00:40:57,764 --> 00:41:00,509 Don't forget what Sir Percy says about about the sleeves. 620 00:41:00,958 --> 00:41:02,848 - A swallow's flight! - Yes, Your Highness! 621 00:41:02,875 --> 00:41:04,605 Flight of, uh, a swallow. 622 00:41:05,144 --> 00:41:07,186 Come along, come along, gentlemen. 623 00:41:14,441 --> 00:41:15,981 Oh, by the way, Wilmot... 624 00:41:22,257 --> 00:41:23,958 Chauvelin's arrived in London. 625 00:41:24,472 --> 00:41:25,929 Have him watched. 626 00:41:26,232 --> 00:41:28,086 I'm just off to the fight with the Prince. 627 00:41:28,522 --> 00:41:30,450 - Report to me there. - Very good. 628 00:41:54,630 --> 00:41:56,185 Mendoza's groggy! 629 00:41:56,212 --> 00:41:57,699 He... He's done! 630 00:41:57,726 --> 00:41:59,432 Don't you believe it, sir. He's foxing! 631 00:41:59,459 --> 00:42:01,131 You wait until the 30th round. 632 00:42:01,158 --> 00:42:03,524 I'll wager 100 guineas he won't last two more rounds. 633 00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:05,115 - Done! - Come on, Mendoza! 634 00:42:05,142 --> 00:42:06,671 Come on Jackson! 635 00:42:22,987 --> 00:42:25,268 - You'd better hedge, Percy! - Hedge be damned, I'll double. 636 00:42:25,295 --> 00:42:27,263 - Done! - Percy must be mad! 637 00:42:27,290 --> 00:42:28,654 Mendoza's finished! 638 00:42:34,653 --> 00:42:36,057 Get up, Mendoza! 639 00:42:36,085 --> 00:42:37,274 Where is he? 640 00:42:37,997 --> 00:42:40,705 - Where is he? - He's at you house. 641 00:42:43,021 --> 00:42:44,238 No, I will not! 642 00:42:44,718 --> 00:42:46,010 You tricked me once into giving you information 643 00:42:46,037 --> 00:42:47,666 about the Marquis de St. Cyr. 644 00:42:48,101 --> 00:42:49,433 I shall never forgive myself. 645 00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:51,456 I'm sick of this sentimental twaddle 646 00:42:51,483 --> 00:42:53,594 about the poor persecuted aristocrats. 647 00:42:54,028 --> 00:42:55,439 Have you forgotten what they did 648 00:42:55,466 --> 00:42:57,636 to the defenseless peasantry for centuries? 649 00:42:58,984 --> 00:43:01,673 What this very St. Cyr did to you? 650 00:43:04,034 --> 00:43:05,285 No, I have not. 651 00:43:06,044 --> 00:43:07,484 But I'm no spy. 652 00:43:09,513 --> 00:43:11,797 - That is your last word? - Absolutely! 653 00:43:13,052 --> 00:43:14,334 I wonder.... 654 00:43:15,074 --> 00:43:17,647 Oh, by the way, how's your brother, Armand? 655 00:43:19,415 --> 00:43:21,418 Very well, I hope. 656 00:43:21,704 --> 00:43:23,203 I hope so too. 657 00:43:23,375 --> 00:43:25,303 But yesterday he was arrested... 658 00:43:25,406 --> 00:43:26,523 Arrested? 659 00:43:26,704 --> 00:43:28,012 At Boulogne. 660 00:43:28,827 --> 00:43:30,009 What for? 661 00:43:30,509 --> 00:43:32,173 As a traitor to his country. 662 00:43:32,412 --> 00:43:33,595 Traitor? 663 00:43:38,696 --> 00:43:40,087 You're lying, Chauvelin. 664 00:43:41,249 --> 00:43:42,838 You're trying to trick me again. 665 00:43:42,879 --> 00:43:45,230 I've the proof of his guilt in my pocket. 666 00:43:46,885 --> 00:43:50,724 This scrap of paper will certainly send your brother to the guillotine. 667 00:43:51,118 --> 00:43:53,676 Unless, of course, you care to redeem it. 668 00:43:55,383 --> 00:43:58,444 Bring me the name of the Pimpernel and it is yours. 669 00:44:01,023 --> 00:44:02,711 But even if I wanted to... 670 00:44:03,685 --> 00:44:05,638 - I don't know it! - Find it! 671 00:44:05,674 --> 00:44:08,332 How can I if you can't with an army of spies? 672 00:44:08,359 --> 00:44:10,950 Because you go everywhere and know everyone in his circle. 673 00:44:11,189 --> 00:44:12,686 That much I do know. 674 00:44:12,713 --> 00:44:14,229 And this also... 675 00:44:14,599 --> 00:44:15,950 That he will be among the guests 676 00:44:15,977 --> 00:44:17,813 tomorrow night at the Grenville ball. 677 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,169 So will half the world! 678 00:44:19,196 --> 00:44:20,810 This thing is impossible! 679 00:44:22,953 --> 00:44:25,747 You're a clever woman whose brother's life is at stake... 680 00:44:25,774 --> 00:44:27,321 Nothing is impossible. 681 00:44:28,294 --> 00:44:29,350 Well? 682 00:44:31,978 --> 00:44:32,975 No, Chauvelin... 683 00:44:33,437 --> 00:44:34,492 I won't! 684 00:44:35,706 --> 00:44:37,155 Very well, madam. 685 00:44:42,657 --> 00:44:43,979 Chauvelin! 686 00:44:52,963 --> 00:44:54,162 Madam? 687 00:45:00,456 --> 00:45:02,422 Do you swear to give me that paper? 688 00:45:04,608 --> 00:45:07,455 The moment I catch the Scarlet Pimpernel. 689 00:45:08,213 --> 00:45:10,268 Zounds! That name again? 690 00:45:10,972 --> 00:45:12,900 I've heard nothing else all day. 691 00:45:12,976 --> 00:45:15,086 At the club. the fight, and now here. 692 00:45:15,376 --> 00:45:17,677 I protest, the fellow is a public nuisance. 693 00:45:21,116 --> 00:45:22,654 I beg your pardon, my dear. 694 00:45:22,681 --> 00:45:24,087 Do I intrude? 695 00:45:24,426 --> 00:45:25,452 No, no. 696 00:45:25,479 --> 00:45:27,505 This is an old, uh, acquaintance. 697 00:45:27,532 --> 00:45:29,551 Monsieur Chauvelin, the French Ambassador. 698 00:45:29,578 --> 00:45:31,012 My husband. 699 00:45:31,041 --> 00:45:33,347 Charmed, delighted, enchanted. 700 00:45:35,003 --> 00:45:36,837 Devilish clever race, the French. 701 00:45:36,864 --> 00:45:40,368 How they speak that unspeakable language of theirs defeats me. 702 00:45:40,439 --> 00:45:41,593 You flatter us, Sir Percy. 703 00:45:41,627 --> 00:45:44,136 No, no, you've got the cleverest heads in the world. 704 00:45:44,163 --> 00:45:45,262 The only trouble is... 705 00:45:45,289 --> 00:45:46,910 You all go to pieces around the neck. 706 00:45:46,937 --> 00:45:48,320 Around the neck? 707 00:45:48,347 --> 00:45:50,092 Yes, now look at that thing. 708 00:45:50,138 --> 00:45:51,875 Sink me, what a mess! 709 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:54,779 Now, if you'd really like to know how to tie a cravat... 710 00:45:54,806 --> 00:45:55,624 I'll tell you. 711 00:45:55,651 --> 00:45:57,995 But it isn't easy, mind, it would take all my brains. 712 00:45:57,993 --> 00:45:58,752 I'm sure it would. 713 00:45:58,779 --> 00:46:00,305 Yes, now look here. 714 00:46:00,333 --> 00:46:03,702 Well, you see, first of all the thing goes twice around the neck. 715 00:46:03,964 --> 00:46:07,183 And then the front folds back to allow the back to come to the front. 716 00:46:07,367 --> 00:46:09,582 Otherwise the front would be all behind 717 00:46:09,610 --> 00:46:11,059 as well as before. 718 00:46:11,086 --> 00:46:13,016 Percy, what are you talking about? 719 00:46:13,043 --> 00:46:14,710 You don't follow me, my dear? 720 00:46:14,738 --> 00:46:16,278 That's exactly what I say. 721 00:46:16,305 --> 00:46:17,800 It takes brains, doesn't it? 722 00:46:17,827 --> 00:46:20,582 - One can see that. - Yes, of course. 723 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:24,610 Good day, Lady Blakeney. 724 00:46:24,637 --> 00:46:26,052 Oh, no, no, don't go. 725 00:46:26,079 --> 00:46:28,612 You and my wife must have so much to say to each other. 726 00:46:28,629 --> 00:46:29,862 We have. 727 00:46:29,914 --> 00:46:33,084 But then I promised myself a little tête-á-tête with Lady Blakeney 728 00:46:33,111 --> 00:46:35,397 at Lord Grenville's ball tomorrow night. 729 00:46:35,432 --> 00:46:36,696 Good. 730 00:46:36,937 --> 00:46:38,338 Tomorrow night, then. 731 00:46:38,489 --> 00:46:39,647 But before you go... 732 00:46:39,674 --> 00:46:42,223 You must hear my verse about that cursed Pimpernel fellow. 733 00:46:42,251 --> 00:46:43,266 You'll love it! 734 00:46:43,293 --> 00:46:44,318 Listen. 735 00:46:44,399 --> 00:46:45,829 "They seek him here... 736 00:46:45,856 --> 00:46:47,171 "they seek him there... 737 00:46:47,198 --> 00:46:50,234 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 738 00:46:50,261 --> 00:46:51,859 "Is he in heaven? 739 00:46:51,886 --> 00:46:53,713 "Is he in hell? 740 00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:56,596 That damned elusive Pimpernel". 741 00:46:56,623 --> 00:46:57,814 - Delightful! - What? 742 00:46:57,841 --> 00:47:00,061 Especially that, uh... that line: 743 00:47:00,088 --> 00:47:01,845 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere". 744 00:47:01,872 --> 00:47:03,021 Yes, I like that too. 745 00:47:03,048 --> 00:47:04,305 Because, you see 746 00:47:04,330 --> 00:47:05,805 I hear that they do. 747 00:47:05,832 --> 00:47:07,179 And that gives the line 748 00:47:07,206 --> 00:47:08,917 a sort of something... 749 00:47:08,944 --> 00:47:11,948 That sort of gives it, ah... A something, uh... 750 00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:14,253 If I make myself clear. 751 00:47:14,314 --> 00:47:15,715 Clear as crystal. 752 00:47:16,677 --> 00:47:18,443 Good day, my dear Sir Percy. 753 00:47:18,470 --> 00:47:21,838 Bonjour, "misu", as the French say. 754 00:47:24,023 --> 00:47:25,553 Bonjour! 755 00:47:31,879 --> 00:47:34,610 Magnificent fight this afternoon, my dear. 756 00:47:35,658 --> 00:47:38,390 Gad, that fellow Mendoza's got quick ears. 757 00:47:38,417 --> 00:47:40,587 In the 10th round, when Jackson had him down 758 00:47:40,614 --> 00:47:42,458 I shouted, "Get up Mendoza!" 759 00:47:42,507 --> 00:47:43,983 And damn me, he did. 760 00:47:44,010 --> 00:47:45,681 And, sink me, he won. 761 00:47:47,254 --> 00:47:48,336 Do you think... 762 00:47:48,364 --> 00:47:51,090 Andrew Ffoulkes might be the Scarlet Pimpernel? 763 00:47:52,629 --> 00:47:53,918 Andrew? 764 00:47:53,952 --> 00:47:55,013 Never! 765 00:47:55,115 --> 00:47:57,168 He couldn't hit a ball at Eaton! 766 00:47:57,491 --> 00:47:58,683 Why? 767 00:47:58,868 --> 00:48:01,338 What's your interest in the Scarlet Pimpernel? 768 00:48:01,455 --> 00:48:02,752 No more than any other woman's. 769 00:48:02,779 --> 00:48:04,259 We would all like to know who he is. 770 00:48:04,347 --> 00:48:06,448 So would your friend Chauvelin, I'll wager. 771 00:48:06,475 --> 00:48:07,661 What makes you say that? 772 00:48:07,688 --> 00:48:09,398 Isn't that what he is here for? 773 00:48:09,697 --> 00:48:11,236 Did he tell you? 774 00:48:11,692 --> 00:48:13,482 - Why should he? - Why not? 775 00:48:13,561 --> 00:48:15,196 Mind you, the man is clever... 776 00:48:15,228 --> 00:48:17,669 But a fellow who can't even tie his own cravat... 777 00:48:17,696 --> 00:48:21,021 Isn't likely to put a noose 'round the Pimpernel's neck is he? 778 00:48:22,338 --> 00:48:23,704 Really, Percy. 779 00:48:23,731 --> 00:48:26,410 Can you never rise above trivialities? 780 00:48:26,437 --> 00:48:30,182 Can't rise above anything with more than three syllables, my dear, I never could. 781 00:48:30,187 --> 00:48:31,419 Nonsense! 782 00:48:31,446 --> 00:48:33,084 You were a man once! 783 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,975 A man a woman could look up to. 784 00:48:36,797 --> 00:48:38,816 Could turn to in trouble. 785 00:48:39,515 --> 00:48:41,004 And now... 786 00:48:41,687 --> 00:48:43,912 You wouldn't know where to begin. 787 00:48:54,861 --> 00:48:57,671 Couldn't you begin by telling me what the trouble is? 788 00:48:58,482 --> 00:49:00,021 What is the use? 789 00:49:00,048 --> 00:49:02,485 We don't even speak the same language. 790 00:49:14,024 --> 00:49:16,862 Mr. Richard Brindslay Sheridan. 791 00:49:18,852 --> 00:49:21,162 The Countess de Tournay. 792 00:49:21,504 --> 00:49:23,655 Mademoiselle de Tournay. 793 00:49:25,992 --> 00:49:27,996 The Vicomte de Tournay. 794 00:49:29,433 --> 00:49:32,181 Lord and Lady Elsworthy. 795 00:49:34,224 --> 00:49:36,855 The Earl and Countess of Garrow. 796 00:49:38,362 --> 00:49:40,092 Well, here's our French friend! 797 00:49:40,119 --> 00:49:42,817 Bonsoir, "misu", as you say. 798 00:49:42,804 --> 00:49:44,270 Good evening, Sir Percy. 799 00:49:46,070 --> 00:49:46,881 Milady. 800 00:49:46,908 --> 00:49:48,642 My dear, look at that cravat. 801 00:49:48,883 --> 00:49:50,968 You're a monstrous quick learner, sir. 802 00:49:51,135 --> 00:49:52,646 Permit me. 803 00:49:54,491 --> 00:49:55,480 There... 804 00:49:55,515 --> 00:49:57,099 Perfect. Perfect! 805 00:49:57,153 --> 00:50:00,017 Another week, and we won't know you from an Englishman. 806 00:50:00,044 --> 00:50:02,428 From an Englishman! That is praise indeed! 807 00:50:03,997 --> 00:50:05,006 Oh, Sir Percy! 808 00:50:05,034 --> 00:50:07,389 What is this poem everybody is talking about? 809 00:50:07,416 --> 00:50:08,517 - Poem? - Yes! 810 00:50:08,544 --> 00:50:10,292 All about the Scarlet Pimpernel. 811 00:50:10,816 --> 00:50:11,738 Do tell us! 812 00:50:11,765 --> 00:50:13,374 Oh, gads, there's no escape. 813 00:50:13,401 --> 00:50:14,625 Forgive me my dear. 814 00:50:14,661 --> 00:50:16,912 Take our friend round and tell him who everybody is... 815 00:50:17,372 --> 00:50:19,375 If anybody is anybody. 816 00:50:22,469 --> 00:50:24,895 - That's exactly like you, Percy! - That's like you. 817 00:50:24,922 --> 00:50:26,866 I only want to know who one person is 818 00:50:26,892 --> 00:50:28,600 and you know the alternative.. 819 00:50:28,633 --> 00:50:30,770 The Pimpernel is under this roof at this moment 820 00:50:30,797 --> 00:50:32,502 among your friends. 821 00:50:33,116 --> 00:50:34,903 Your move, milady. 822 00:50:35,269 --> 00:50:36,764 And good luck. 823 00:50:42,351 --> 00:50:43,667 Marguerite! 824 00:50:45,721 --> 00:50:46,987 Suzanne! 825 00:50:47,263 --> 00:50:48,571 Suzanne. 826 00:50:58,302 --> 00:51:00,615 The thing rhymes, you see, in four places. 827 00:51:00,758 --> 00:51:03,268 And if you can get a rhyme to rhyme... 828 00:51:03,288 --> 00:51:06,094 That, uh, makes it a poem, if you follow me. 829 00:51:06,231 --> 00:51:08,244 Yes, of course, but what is it? 830 00:51:08,547 --> 00:51:10,102 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 831 00:51:10,106 --> 00:51:12,158 by Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet. 832 00:51:13,416 --> 00:51:15,262 Really, that's only the name! 833 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:16,976 Well, go on! 834 00:51:17,242 --> 00:51:18,781 "They seek him here, 835 00:51:18,808 --> 00:51:20,300 "They seek him there. 836 00:51:20,328 --> 00:51:22,925 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 837 00:51:22,952 --> 00:51:24,731 "Is he in heaven? 838 00:51:24,758 --> 00:51:26,106 "Is he in... 839 00:51:28,305 --> 00:51:30,199 "That damned elusive... 840 00:51:30,226 --> 00:51:31,774 Pimpernel. 841 00:51:32,099 --> 00:51:33,697 That's marvelous! It rhymes! 842 00:51:33,724 --> 00:51:35,196 Oh yes! It's a poem! 843 00:51:37,168 --> 00:51:39,659 "They seek him here, "They seek him there. 844 00:51:39,690 --> 00:51:42,916 "Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 845 00:51:42,943 --> 00:51:45,763 "Is he in heaven? "Is he in... 846 00:51:46,705 --> 00:51:49,999 "That damned elusive Pimpernel! 847 00:51:50,026 --> 00:51:52,201 - Oh, extraordinary. - Marvelous! 848 00:51:59,574 --> 00:52:00,683 You liked that? 849 00:52:00,712 --> 00:52:02,581 Well, I could tell another one. 850 00:52:02,608 --> 00:52:04,072 Zounds! 851 00:52:04,509 --> 00:52:06,372 That's a monstrous good color! 852 00:52:09,645 --> 00:52:10,734 Hastings! 853 00:52:10,743 --> 00:52:12,031 Who made that coat? 854 00:52:12,058 --> 00:52:13,086 Beagle & Beagle. 855 00:52:13,113 --> 00:52:13,936 Odd's blood! 856 00:52:13,963 --> 00:52:16,246 Sink me if they're not better than our master Treadle. 857 00:52:16,273 --> 00:52:18,373 - Ffoulkes and Dewhurst are free. - Escaped? 858 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,550 No, released. They are coming here immediately. 859 00:52:20,577 --> 00:52:22,571 Of course, that's why they were released. 860 00:52:22,731 --> 00:52:24,610 To lead a trail to the rest of us. 861 00:52:24,888 --> 00:52:27,007 I shall be in the library at midnight. 862 00:52:28,478 --> 00:52:30,815 His Royal Highness... 863 00:52:30,842 --> 00:52:33,142 The Prince of Wales. 864 00:52:42,888 --> 00:52:44,998 Ladies, please. 865 00:52:46,018 --> 00:52:48,898 Ladies, gentlemen, please. 866 00:52:49,536 --> 00:52:51,318 Ah, Grenville! 867 00:52:55,026 --> 00:52:56,781 Good evening, ladies! 868 00:52:56,808 --> 00:52:58,526 Good evening, gentlemen! 869 00:52:58,785 --> 00:53:00,269 Please, please! 870 00:53:02,890 --> 00:53:05,008 Any news from France, Grenville? 871 00:53:05,035 --> 00:53:06,933 - The worst, sir. - The King? 872 00:53:06,968 --> 00:53:08,510 Doomed. 873 00:53:09,304 --> 00:53:10,744 Can't we do anything? 874 00:53:10,937 --> 00:53:12,915 We recalled our ambassador a month ago. 875 00:53:12,954 --> 00:53:15,758 Chauvelin had the impudence to accept my invitation. 876 00:53:17,333 --> 00:53:18,935 Will Your Highness permit? 877 00:53:18,962 --> 00:53:20,099 Monsieur Chauvelin 878 00:53:20,127 --> 00:53:22,731 the unofficial ambassador of the French government. 879 00:53:24,947 --> 00:53:28,307 Monsieur, we will try to forget the government who sent you. 880 00:53:28,698 --> 00:53:31,230 And look upon you as merely our guest. 881 00:53:31,438 --> 00:53:33,416 A private gentleman from France. 882 00:53:33,682 --> 00:53:35,647 As such are you welcome, monsieur. 883 00:53:35,705 --> 00:53:36,778 Well, ladies... 884 00:53:36,805 --> 00:53:39,653 Did you bet on my horse at Newmarket this afternoon? 885 00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:51,756 I particularly love the whole... 886 00:53:51,783 --> 00:53:53,245 But I didn't want to... 887 00:53:55,310 --> 00:53:57,904 Lady Blakeney with a sad face? 888 00:53:57,932 --> 00:54:00,830 Ha-ha, but sadness is for mere mortals, milady. 889 00:54:00,857 --> 00:54:02,851 Never, never for goddesses. 890 00:54:03,091 --> 00:54:05,364 Alas, even a goddess must have moments 891 00:54:05,392 --> 00:54:06,970 when she's a plain woman. 892 00:54:06,997 --> 00:54:08,139 Zounds, madam! 893 00:54:08,166 --> 00:54:11,229 Lady Blakeney could never become a plain woman at any moment. 894 00:54:11,256 --> 00:54:13,062 Ha-ha, that's better! 895 00:54:13,135 --> 00:54:14,811 Now, come and help me through my... 896 00:54:14,839 --> 00:54:16,394 my princely paces. 897 00:54:17,074 --> 00:54:19,433 I crave your permission to present Your Royal Highness 898 00:54:19,582 --> 00:54:21,804 the Countess de Tournay, her daughter. 899 00:54:21,831 --> 00:54:23,387 This is a pleasure, madam. 900 00:54:24,055 --> 00:54:26,157 Charming, charming! 901 00:54:26,184 --> 00:54:29,309 You and Lady Blakeney must become great friends, madam. 902 00:54:29,354 --> 00:54:31,696 Her friends are my friends. 903 00:54:32,129 --> 00:54:34,322 And her enemies, the enemies... 904 00:54:34,409 --> 00:54:35,543 of England. 905 00:54:35,873 --> 00:54:38,992 We poor exiles, madam show our gratitude to England 906 00:54:39,019 --> 00:54:41,660 by our devotion to the wishes of Monseigneur. 907 00:54:42,790 --> 00:54:43,656 Suzanne. 908 00:54:43,683 --> 00:54:45,397 - Suzanne! - Marguerite! 909 00:54:51,114 --> 00:54:53,465 They were schoolfellows in the convent in Paris. 910 00:54:53,492 --> 00:54:55,595 Ah-ha, charming, madam. 911 00:54:55,622 --> 00:54:57,483 Your Royal Highness, 912 00:54:57,510 --> 00:55:00,586 I accepted the Lord Grenville's gracious invitation 913 00:55:00,613 --> 00:55:04,720 solely to implore Your Highness to do something to save my husband. 914 00:55:05,585 --> 00:55:06,951 Madam. 915 00:55:07,532 --> 00:55:09,957 The government does everything in it's power 916 00:55:09,984 --> 00:55:13,600 to save those who are threatened by death in the prisons of the French Republic. 917 00:55:14,057 --> 00:55:16,151 But if a country goes mad 918 00:55:16,182 --> 00:55:18,803 it has the right to commit every horror 919 00:55:18,830 --> 00:55:20,575 within it's own walls. 920 00:55:25,045 --> 00:55:28,283 Hastings slipped a note into sir Andrew Ffoulkes' cuff. 921 00:55:29,576 --> 00:55:31,066 Thank you, sir. 922 00:55:40,071 --> 00:55:41,710 Ah, Lady Blakeney. 923 00:55:42,079 --> 00:55:44,607 Won't you take pity on a lonely compatriot? 924 00:55:48,101 --> 00:55:50,322 Are you asking me to dance with you? 925 00:55:52,273 --> 00:55:53,392 Not with me. 926 00:55:53,434 --> 00:55:55,058 With Sir Andrew Ffoulkes. 927 00:55:55,248 --> 00:55:56,131 Why? 928 00:55:56,159 --> 00:55:58,369 He has a note in his cuff. Get it! 929 00:56:00,401 --> 00:56:02,379 - But listen, Chauvelin... - Get it! 930 00:56:24,589 --> 00:56:26,725 Your Royal Highness... 931 00:56:26,776 --> 00:56:28,588 Your Graces... 932 00:56:28,707 --> 00:56:29,642 My lords... 933 00:56:29,678 --> 00:56:31,953 Ladies and gentlemen... 934 00:56:32,059 --> 00:56:35,846 Pray take your places for the minuet. 935 00:57:11,263 --> 00:57:13,333 Oh, please, it's nothing. 936 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:14,527 Just the heat. 937 00:57:15,869 --> 00:57:17,217 Sir Andrew. 938 00:57:17,543 --> 00:57:19,448 Would you be kind enough to see me upstairs? 939 00:57:19,475 --> 00:57:20,474 Of course. 940 00:57:34,328 --> 00:57:36,819 This way, Lady Blakeney. You'll be all right in a moment. 941 00:57:48,273 --> 00:57:49,551 Lady Blakeney. 942 00:57:49,639 --> 00:57:51,194 Shall I send for a physician? 943 00:57:51,486 --> 00:57:52,712 No, no! 944 00:57:55,132 --> 00:57:56,894 I'm so sorry... 945 00:57:57,881 --> 00:57:59,719 I'll be all right in a minute. 946 00:58:04,096 --> 00:58:05,664 Would you rather be left alone? 947 00:58:05,691 --> 00:58:06,615 No. 948 00:58:06,642 --> 00:58:07,957 Please don't leave me! 949 00:58:10,636 --> 00:58:12,001 Just for a second. 950 00:58:17,355 --> 00:58:18,895 I'll be all right. 951 00:59:17,413 --> 00:59:19,019 How clever of you. 952 00:59:19,211 --> 00:59:21,635 Almost as good as a burnt feather for faintness. 953 00:59:22,765 --> 00:59:24,088 There... 954 00:59:24,528 --> 00:59:26,300 I feel better already. 955 00:59:27,048 --> 00:59:29,514 Would you be kind enough to bring me my fan? 956 00:59:51,668 --> 00:59:52,952 It was a love letter. 957 00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:54,805 And you sacrificed it for me. 958 00:59:54,874 --> 00:59:56,273 What a shame. 959 00:59:56,780 --> 00:59:59,437 But I'll ask her to write you another, shall I? 960 01:00:00,795 --> 01:00:03,402 Suzanne! Are you feeling better, darling? 961 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,211 I spoiled Sir Andrew's dance. 962 01:00:07,246 --> 01:00:09,712 Would you make it up to him by finishing it for me? 963 01:00:27,501 --> 01:00:28,460 Well? 964 01:00:29,330 --> 01:00:30,612 Did you get it? 965 01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:32,310 He burned it. 966 01:00:33,206 --> 01:00:34,861 But I got a glimpse of what was left. 967 01:00:35,749 --> 01:00:36,924 It began... 968 01:00:37,378 --> 01:00:38,686 Well, go on. 969 01:00:40,185 --> 01:00:42,098 "Start tomorrow myself..." 970 01:00:43,017 --> 01:00:44,101 And ended... 971 01:00:44,128 --> 01:00:46,718 "Will be in library at midnight". 972 01:04:40,250 --> 01:04:42,153 Thank you, Mary. You can go to bed. 973 01:05:35,297 --> 01:05:37,647 See that Sir Andrew Ffoulkes gets this. 974 01:05:39,673 --> 01:05:40,948 My dear! 975 01:05:41,447 --> 01:05:42,597 Percy! 976 01:05:44,304 --> 01:05:45,777 All right, Brinker. 977 01:05:49,592 --> 01:05:50,908 Well, my dear? 978 01:05:52,939 --> 01:05:54,271 It's about Armand. 979 01:05:55,705 --> 01:05:57,410 He's in the most terrible danger. 980 01:05:57,529 --> 01:05:59,084 They've arrested him at Boulogne! 981 01:06:00,089 --> 01:06:01,529 How do you know? 982 01:06:04,340 --> 01:06:05,589 Chauvelin told me. 983 01:06:06,219 --> 01:06:07,510 When? 984 01:06:09,236 --> 01:06:10,544 Yesterday. 985 01:06:12,533 --> 01:06:14,884 Well, why didn't you tell me when I asked you? 986 01:06:15,184 --> 01:06:16,780 I don't know... I... 987 01:06:19,333 --> 01:06:20,838 He threatened me. 988 01:06:21,500 --> 01:06:23,270 Then why are you telling me now? 989 01:06:23,297 --> 01:06:25,725 Because I thought you might do something for Armand! 990 01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,026 You have influence at court. 991 01:06:28,932 --> 01:06:31,455 Didn't you ask your friend Chauvelin for help? 992 01:06:33,347 --> 01:06:34,993 He promised me that... 993 01:06:36,735 --> 01:06:38,290 I don't trust him. 994 01:06:39,237 --> 01:06:41,537 He promised you the life of your brother. 995 01:06:42,991 --> 01:06:45,069 What did you give him in exchange? 996 01:06:49,877 --> 01:06:51,647 What has happened to you, Percy? 997 01:06:54,136 --> 01:06:55,999 Do you... hate me? 998 01:06:58,445 --> 01:07:00,729 Why did you denounce the Marquis de St. Cyr? 999 01:07:01,551 --> 01:07:02,800 So, that's it! 1000 01:07:03,372 --> 01:07:05,951 Why did you never ask me what the Marquis de St. Cyr did to me! 1001 01:07:05,978 --> 01:07:07,551 You didn't even know him. 1002 01:07:09,011 --> 01:07:09,987 No. 1003 01:07:10,203 --> 01:07:11,743 I didn't even know him. 1004 01:07:12,598 --> 01:07:13,574 Well, then. 1005 01:07:13,631 --> 01:07:15,005 But I knew his son. 1006 01:07:16,862 --> 01:07:19,461 I was only 17 when he asked me to marry him. 1007 01:07:20,182 --> 01:07:22,111 His father heard about it and had me arrested... 1008 01:07:22,925 --> 01:07:24,737 And sent to St. Lazare. 1009 01:07:26,150 --> 01:07:28,243 Do you know what St. Lazare is? 1010 01:07:30,260 --> 01:07:32,619 Do you know the sort of women that are sent there? 1011 01:07:34,295 --> 01:07:35,405 I would have killed myself. 1012 01:07:35,819 --> 01:07:36,878 Only... 1013 01:07:37,071 --> 01:07:38,320 Only what? 1014 01:07:38,386 --> 01:07:39,926 The Revolution came. 1015 01:07:40,275 --> 01:07:42,476 The ever-glorious 14th of July. 1016 01:07:43,398 --> 01:07:44,764 And I was free. 1017 01:07:47,831 --> 01:07:49,610 Why this tardy explanation? 1018 01:07:50,450 --> 01:07:53,802 I asked you once if you sent the St. Cyrs to the guillotine. You said yes. 1019 01:07:54,592 --> 01:07:56,627 You believed it so easily, didn't you? 1020 01:07:58,309 --> 01:07:59,443 And yet... 1021 01:08:00,171 --> 01:08:01,702 I still ask myself. 1022 01:08:02,716 --> 01:08:04,795 "Am I really guilty of their deaths?" 1023 01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:07,114 If not you, who is? 1024 01:08:07,660 --> 01:08:09,058 He plotted with Austria. 1025 01:08:09,085 --> 01:08:10,427 I told a friend. 1026 01:08:10,949 --> 01:08:12,761 A man whom I thought a friend. 1027 01:08:13,194 --> 01:08:14,576 He denounced him. 1028 01:08:15,498 --> 01:08:16,881 The terror did the rest. 1029 01:08:17,793 --> 01:08:19,241 Who was that friend? 1030 01:08:23,377 --> 01:08:24,974 Was it Chauvelin? 1031 01:08:29,893 --> 01:08:31,970 He promised you your brother's life. 1032 01:08:33,229 --> 01:08:35,182 What price did you pay for it? 1033 01:08:36,890 --> 01:08:38,810 What price did you pay for it? 1034 01:08:40,668 --> 01:08:42,274 I paid a horrible price. 1035 01:08:43,733 --> 01:08:44,959 Well? 1036 01:08:45,566 --> 01:08:47,783 I betrayed the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1037 01:08:50,650 --> 01:08:51,974 How? 1038 01:08:52,614 --> 01:08:54,749 Ffoulkes had a scrap of paper in his cuff. 1039 01:08:54,876 --> 01:08:58,418 I read it and told Chauvelin the Pimpernel would be in the library at midnight. 1040 01:08:58,985 --> 01:09:01,493 And was he in the library at midnight? 1041 01:09:01,584 --> 01:09:03,266 Chauvelin says he wasn't. 1042 01:09:03,714 --> 01:09:05,162 But I think he is lying. 1043 01:09:06,856 --> 01:09:08,167 And through my betrayal 1044 01:09:08,194 --> 01:09:10,676 a noble and generous man might lose his life. 1045 01:09:11,172 --> 01:09:12,728 What am I to do Percy? 1046 01:09:12,755 --> 01:09:14,368 How can I warn him? 1047 01:09:14,403 --> 01:09:15,851 Warn him? 1048 01:09:15,945 --> 01:09:17,310 Against what? 1049 01:09:17,337 --> 01:09:20,250 Against the danger that threatens him if he goes back to France! 1050 01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:21,585 My dear... 1051 01:09:21,612 --> 01:09:23,600 If he is the kind of lunatic I take him to be 1052 01:09:23,601 --> 01:09:25,134 your warning won't stop him. 1053 01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:26,922 But he might be going to his death! 1054 01:09:26,950 --> 01:09:29,208 Well, that's all the fellow lives for. 1055 01:09:30,094 --> 01:09:32,461 Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him. 1056 01:09:32,488 --> 01:09:34,317 I'm not in love with him. 1057 01:09:34,346 --> 01:09:36,117 I admire his heroism, but... 1058 01:09:36,154 --> 01:09:37,527 I don't love him. 1059 01:09:37,595 --> 01:09:39,681 Oh, but you do, only you don't know it. 1060 01:09:40,278 --> 01:09:42,812 I didn't know it myself until a moment ago. 1061 01:09:42,870 --> 01:09:45,220 Percy, please don't joke about it! 1062 01:09:45,653 --> 01:09:46,952 It's no joke. 1063 01:09:47,839 --> 01:09:49,214 Believe me. 1064 01:09:50,832 --> 01:09:53,712 Dangerous game, falling in love with a phantom, my dear. 1065 01:09:54,759 --> 01:09:57,357 For all you know, he may be a married man. 1066 01:09:57,872 --> 01:09:59,892 Who's deeply in love with his wife. 1067 01:10:01,056 --> 01:10:02,173 Never. 1068 01:10:02,833 --> 01:10:04,116 Why not? 1069 01:10:04,993 --> 01:10:06,927 Would any man who was in love with his wife 1070 01:10:06,954 --> 01:10:08,875 leave her continually to face death? 1071 01:10:10,557 --> 01:10:11,997 Would you? 1072 01:10:13,904 --> 01:10:15,062 Me? 1073 01:10:17,467 --> 01:10:20,081 Zounds! I'm much more romantic than you think. 1074 01:10:20,790 --> 01:10:23,041 In a case like that I wouldn't leave you. 1075 01:10:23,202 --> 01:10:25,205 Not even to go to my tailor. 1076 01:10:26,445 --> 01:10:28,083 The horses are ready, sir. 1077 01:10:28,277 --> 01:10:29,499 Thank you, Brinker. 1078 01:10:29,544 --> 01:10:30,825 Are you going away? 1079 01:10:30,859 --> 01:10:32,680 Oh, yes, didn't I tell you? 1080 01:10:32,701 --> 01:10:34,915 Important business in town. 1081 01:10:35,374 --> 01:10:37,013 Goodbye, my dear. 1082 01:10:37,726 --> 01:10:39,241 Your tailor, I suppose. 1083 01:10:39,274 --> 01:10:42,015 Not only my tailor, but also my bootmaker. 1084 01:10:42,403 --> 01:10:44,072 And incidentally... 1085 01:10:44,165 --> 01:10:46,821 I want to see what my influence is worth at court... 1086 01:10:46,848 --> 01:10:48,701 That little matter of your brother. 1087 01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:51,527 Perhaps I can help. 1088 01:10:53,184 --> 01:10:54,855 Oh, Percy, if you could... 1089 01:10:54,882 --> 01:10:56,759 I'd love you all my life. 1090 01:10:58,002 --> 01:10:59,351 Gad! 1091 01:11:00,846 --> 01:11:02,617 I must remember that, my dear. 1092 01:11:04,376 --> 01:11:05,727 Goodbye. 1093 01:11:33,773 --> 01:11:34,866 What is it Brinker? 1094 01:11:34,941 --> 01:11:37,333 It's 6 o'clock, milady. 1095 01:11:38,523 --> 01:11:40,509 I suppose you want me to leave this room. 1096 01:11:41,878 --> 01:11:44,377 I've never been here quite alone, have I? 1097 01:11:44,404 --> 01:11:45,976 No, milady. 1098 01:11:46,094 --> 01:11:48,313 All right, Brinker, thank you. 1099 01:12:34,255 --> 01:12:35,728 Percy! 1100 01:12:43,689 --> 01:12:45,131 Percy! 1101 01:12:50,591 --> 01:12:52,494 - Brinker! Brinker! - Milady. 1102 01:12:52,655 --> 01:12:55,274 A letter, to be delivered into your Lady's good hands. 1103 01:12:55,351 --> 01:12:57,037 - From Sir Percy? - No, madam. 1104 01:12:57,064 --> 01:12:59,493 From his excellency, the French Ambassador. 1105 01:13:28,938 --> 01:13:30,261 Where's Monsieur Chauvelin? 1106 01:13:30,288 --> 01:13:32,619 He left this morning for France, madam. 1107 01:13:33,699 --> 01:13:35,288 All right, thank you. 1108 01:13:46,837 --> 01:13:48,028 Brinker! 1109 01:13:49,041 --> 01:13:50,134 The carriage. 1110 01:13:50,366 --> 01:13:51,823 Very good, milady. 1111 01:14:23,910 --> 01:14:25,425 Is Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in? 1112 01:14:25,452 --> 01:14:26,609 Yes, milady. 1113 01:14:32,256 --> 01:14:34,135 I'll call Sir Andrew, milady. 1114 01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,177 Lady Blakeney, what's happened? 1115 01:14:44,204 --> 01:14:46,242 Sir Andrew, there's no time to waste in talking. 1116 01:14:46,269 --> 01:14:47,384 Just listen to me. 1117 01:14:47,399 --> 01:14:49,608 Your leader and friend, the Scarlet Pimpernel 1118 01:14:49,635 --> 01:14:51,313 - My husband.. - How do you know that, milady? 1119 01:14:51,340 --> 01:14:52,802 Do not ask any questions now. 1120 01:14:52,781 --> 01:14:54,251 He is in deadly peril. 1121 01:14:54,278 --> 01:14:56,668 Chauvelin knows that Percy Blakeney and the Scarlet Pimpernel 1122 01:14:56,695 --> 01:14:57,921 are one and the same. 1123 01:14:57,948 --> 01:14:59,826 How did Chauvelin come to know? 1124 01:15:02,535 --> 01:15:03,950 Through me. 1125 01:15:05,388 --> 01:15:07,174 Do you mean to say that you betrayed him? 1126 01:15:07,201 --> 01:15:08,831 Yes, yes, I betrayed him, never mind how 1127 01:15:08,858 --> 01:15:10,073 just tell me this... 1128 01:15:10,100 --> 01:15:11,751 Has Percy left for Boulogne? 1129 01:15:11,778 --> 01:15:12,761 Yes. 1130 01:15:13,288 --> 01:15:15,430 - To save my brother? - And de Tournay. 1131 01:15:15,468 --> 01:15:17,751 What is their meeting place in Boulogne? 1132 01:15:18,699 --> 01:15:19,948 Why? 1133 01:15:20,223 --> 01:15:22,792 - Do you want to... - Oh, look at me, man! 1134 01:15:22,819 --> 01:15:25,575 Do I look like a woman who wants to send her husband to his death? 1135 01:15:25,602 --> 01:15:28,098 I want to find Percy, to warn him, to save him 1136 01:15:28,125 --> 01:15:29,284 or to die with him. 1137 01:15:32,983 --> 01:15:34,346 I'll go with you. 1138 01:15:38,386 --> 01:15:39,982 Can you bring your friends? 1139 01:15:40,886 --> 01:15:42,251 Ten of them. 1140 01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,323 The rest are in France. 1141 01:15:44,954 --> 01:15:47,121 Percy has forbidden us to go over. 1142 01:15:47,597 --> 01:15:49,946 It will be the first time we've ever disobeyed him. 1143 01:15:53,937 --> 01:15:56,932 I'll save Percy even if I have to kill Chauvelin. 1144 01:15:57,869 --> 01:15:59,624 And if he goes to the guillotine... 1145 01:16:00,224 --> 01:16:01,640 I'll go after him. 1146 01:16:07,465 --> 01:16:09,477 There you are citizens! 1147 01:16:09,504 --> 01:16:12,426 Boulogne has a guillotine of it's own now. 1148 01:16:12,466 --> 01:16:13,826 Same as Paris! 1149 01:16:13,853 --> 01:16:15,137 That's nothing! 1150 01:16:15,164 --> 01:16:17,496 Half the towns in France have got them. 1151 01:16:19,110 --> 01:16:20,889 Let her go, Francois! 1152 01:16:24,806 --> 01:16:26,214 Good, eh? 1153 01:16:27,798 --> 01:16:29,271 So much for the bait. 1154 01:16:29,961 --> 01:16:31,302 Now for the trap. 1155 01:16:31,617 --> 01:16:33,610 We can't afford to make any mistakes this time. 1156 01:16:33,625 --> 01:16:36,626 Remember, it's either the Pimpernel or ourselves for the guillotine. 1157 01:16:36,653 --> 01:16:38,851 - Robespierre knows he is here. - Yes. 1158 01:16:39,006 --> 01:16:41,569 The net must be spread with more than cunning. 1159 01:16:41,547 --> 01:16:42,838 Blakeney's no fool. 1160 01:16:42,865 --> 01:16:45,304 Besides, he's a master of makeup and disguise. 1161 01:16:45,331 --> 01:16:47,219 He may turn up as an old woman 1162 01:16:47,253 --> 01:16:50,410 a peddler with a pack, a peasant with a beard, anything! 1163 01:16:50,456 --> 01:16:53,418 They've got the Scarlet Pimpernel! 1164 01:16:55,281 --> 01:16:56,299 Quiet! 1165 01:16:56,334 --> 01:16:58,229 Quiet everybody! Quiet! 1166 01:17:01,499 --> 01:17:03,311 Listen, my friend 1167 01:17:03,338 --> 01:17:05,660 The next time you want to put on a false beard 1168 01:17:05,650 --> 01:17:06,735 Choose a good one 1169 01:17:06,763 --> 01:17:09,858 not a bird's nest that wouldn't deceive a child! 1170 01:17:12,193 --> 01:17:13,433 Clumsy idiot! 1171 01:17:13,474 --> 01:17:14,973 Let go, you! 1172 01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:18,500 I'll teach him to pull the best beard in Boulogne! 1173 01:17:23,235 --> 01:17:25,611 I've never been so insulted in my life! 1174 01:17:25,661 --> 01:17:27,499 You disgusting, gibbering monkeys! 1175 01:17:27,526 --> 01:17:29,205 You'll hear more of this! 1176 01:17:29,399 --> 01:17:32,453 An honest woman I am, one of the few in our street! 1177 01:17:32,803 --> 01:17:34,573 Stripped naked by soldiers 1178 01:17:34,588 --> 01:17:36,871 and the searched to see if I was a man! 1179 01:17:52,365 --> 01:17:53,855 Listen, Captain. 1180 01:17:54,971 --> 01:17:57,140 If I were 20 years younger 1181 01:17:57,167 --> 01:17:58,949 that's were I should be. 1182 01:17:58,976 --> 01:18:01,012 Bravo uncle! That's the spirit! 1183 01:18:01,889 --> 01:18:03,867 Where are you boys serving now? 1184 01:18:04,114 --> 01:18:05,595 Oh, we're on leave. 1185 01:18:05,934 --> 01:18:09,062 Stealing away the hearts of the girls of Boulogne? 1186 01:18:09,355 --> 01:18:11,267 No sir, I'm in love. 1187 01:18:11,476 --> 01:18:12,965 Ah, you rascal. 1188 01:18:13,146 --> 01:18:15,006 It's the wife of another man? 1189 01:18:15,084 --> 01:18:17,161 No, it's my own. 1190 01:18:18,567 --> 01:18:20,109 Splendid! 1191 01:18:20,136 --> 01:18:22,660 Captain, I’ll tell you a secret. 1192 01:18:24,686 --> 01:18:28,062 You and I are the only men in France 1193 01:18:28,097 --> 01:18:29,592 who are in love with our wives. 1194 01:18:29,619 --> 01:18:31,447 Hooray! Let's drink to it! 1195 01:18:32,314 --> 01:18:33,779 Well, here's to it! 1196 01:18:35,424 --> 01:18:36,814 Here's to it! 1197 01:18:39,988 --> 01:18:42,040 But it'll be hard for you to leave her 1198 01:18:42,067 --> 01:18:43,512 for this war with England. 1199 01:18:43,540 --> 01:18:44,821 You think that's coming, do you? 1200 01:18:44,848 --> 01:18:45,741 Surely! 1201 01:18:45,768 --> 01:18:49,874 We shall have to teach perfidious Albion a lesson! 1202 01:18:49,901 --> 01:18:52,246 Well. it won't take us long to get across the channel. 1203 01:18:52,306 --> 01:18:53,486 Will it, boys? 1204 01:18:53,553 --> 01:18:54,630 No, no! 1205 01:18:54,657 --> 01:18:58,248 Well, gentlemen, good luck! And... 1206 01:18:58,275 --> 01:18:59,531 Good night. 1207 01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:01,539 - Good night. - Good night. 1208 01:19:05,359 --> 01:19:07,694 De Tournay was brought here from Paris yesterday 1209 01:19:07,730 --> 01:19:08,928 The same prison as Armand. 1210 01:19:08,947 --> 01:19:10,082 I thought so. 1211 01:19:10,109 --> 01:19:11,976 Chauvelin's using them as bait. 1212 01:19:15,606 --> 01:19:17,245 Search every incoming ship. 1213 01:19:18,962 --> 01:19:20,640 Even the smallest fishing boat. 1214 01:19:20,678 --> 01:19:21,700 And you... 1215 01:19:22,474 --> 01:19:24,194 De Tournay and St. Just have escaped! 1216 01:19:24,221 --> 01:19:25,841 Escaped! How? 1217 01:19:26,050 --> 01:19:27,206 God knows. 1218 01:19:27,233 --> 01:19:28,712 The Pimpernel knows! 1219 01:19:28,852 --> 01:19:30,465 Someone will pay for this! 1220 01:19:30,849 --> 01:19:32,038 Where are the jailers? 1221 01:19:32,065 --> 01:19:33,237 Missing! 1222 01:19:34,184 --> 01:19:35,119 Citizen Chauvelin! 1223 01:19:35,154 --> 01:19:36,779 How dare you burst in? Who are you? 1224 01:19:36,806 --> 01:19:37,701 Jailer from the prison! 1225 01:19:37,728 --> 01:19:39,562 - So you're the one... - No fault of mine! 1226 01:19:40,088 --> 01:19:41,793 The head jailer would have killed me 1227 01:19:41,820 --> 01:19:43,927 if I hadn't taken the money to free those accursed aristocrats! 1228 01:19:43,954 --> 01:19:44,855 What? 1229 01:19:44,882 --> 01:19:46,628 The Pimpernel is taking them to England. 1230 01:19:46,665 --> 01:19:48,541 Promised us all jobs there! 1231 01:19:48,613 --> 01:19:51,042 But I'm a good patriot, Citizen Chauvelin. 1232 01:19:51,284 --> 01:19:53,105 I'm not losing my head... 1233 01:19:53,557 --> 01:19:56,396 because I got some information that will save yours. 1234 01:19:57,624 --> 01:19:59,106 What is it worth? 1235 01:19:59,263 --> 01:20:00,711 What do you know? 1236 01:20:00,963 --> 01:20:03,975 Where you can find the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1237 01:20:04,601 --> 01:20:05,801 Out with it! 1238 01:20:05,970 --> 01:20:07,128 Where? 1239 01:20:08,693 --> 01:20:12,690 He told us to meet him at 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or. 1240 01:20:13,976 --> 01:20:15,308 Take him away. 1241 01:20:20,027 --> 01:20:22,518 10 o'clock at the Lion d'Or.## 1242 01:20:37,031 --> 01:20:39,299 Let fly foresheet! 1243 01:20:39,326 --> 01:20:40,691 Let fly foresheet! 1244 01:20:41,149 --> 01:20:42,811 There's the Lion d'Or. 1245 01:20:44,759 --> 01:20:46,940 Tell the men to get ready to row me ashore. 1246 01:20:46,967 --> 01:20:48,744 We must wait for the signal. 1247 01:20:48,777 --> 01:20:50,549 Brogard waves the lantern 1248 01:20:50,576 --> 01:20:51,940 across the window for safe 1249 01:20:51,967 --> 01:20:53,688 up and down for danger. 1250 01:20:54,129 --> 01:20:55,147 Look! 1251 01:20:55,423 --> 01:20:56,797 There's the signal. 1252 01:21:00,793 --> 01:21:01,902 Safe! 1253 01:21:03,973 --> 01:21:05,488 You've all the roads watched? 1254 01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,287 Every corner... and the beach. 1255 01:21:08,475 --> 01:21:10,494 And a troop of dragoons to surround the place? 1256 01:21:10,695 --> 01:21:12,259 Waiting outside. 1257 01:21:12,357 --> 01:21:13,473 Come on then... 1258 01:21:13,513 --> 01:21:14,926 The Lion d'Or. 1259 01:21:31,856 --> 01:21:32,914 Good evening. 1260 01:21:32,941 --> 01:21:34,219 What do you want here? 1261 01:21:34,246 --> 01:21:36,397 This is no place for one of your sort. 1262 01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,328 I'm the sort that pays well, Citizen Brogard. 1263 01:21:41,272 --> 01:21:42,548 For what? 1264 01:21:43,700 --> 01:21:45,455 For a seat by the fire. 1265 01:22:06,955 --> 01:22:08,967 I'll wait here for a friend of mine... 1266 01:22:09,869 --> 01:22:10,967 And yours. 1267 01:22:10,984 --> 01:22:13,283 What should I know of your friends? 1268 01:22:13,310 --> 01:22:15,851 You signaled him just now. You must be expecting him. 1269 01:22:16,083 --> 01:22:17,208 What time? 1270 01:22:19,986 --> 01:22:21,269 What time? 1271 01:22:23,134 --> 01:22:24,508 10 o'clock. 1272 01:22:34,752 --> 01:22:36,143 Where can I hide? 1273 01:22:37,099 --> 01:22:38,871 Quick, to the attic! 1274 01:23:08,393 --> 01:23:09,812 Citizen Brogard? 1275 01:23:09,839 --> 01:23:10,816 Yes? 1276 01:23:10,843 --> 01:23:12,202 Under arrest. 1277 01:23:20,197 --> 01:23:21,297 What for? 1278 01:23:21,325 --> 01:23:22,666 Betraying the Republic... 1279 01:23:22,900 --> 01:23:24,597 Helping the enemies of France... 1280 01:23:24,879 --> 01:23:27,238 Harboring a gang of dangerous criminals... 1281 01:23:27,456 --> 01:23:29,457 Smuggling aristocrats out of the country. 1282 01:23:29,484 --> 01:23:30,748 That's a lie! 1283 01:23:30,775 --> 01:23:32,114 You've got one chance. 1284 01:23:32,141 --> 01:23:35,310 Take it, or I'll hang you now from your own sign. 1285 01:23:36,010 --> 01:23:39,544 The leader of your gang is coming here tonight, isn't he? 1286 01:23:40,579 --> 01:23:41,855 Isn't he? 1287 01:23:42,906 --> 01:23:44,743 - Yes. - What time? 1288 01:23:46,321 --> 01:23:49,301 He ordered his boat to be off the point at 10 o'clock. 1289 01:23:49,328 --> 01:23:51,782 Ah, but he'll call here for his passengers, won't he? 1290 01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:52,817 He might! 1291 01:23:52,844 --> 01:23:53,782 Might? 1292 01:23:54,306 --> 01:23:57,127 You'll look pretty swinging in the wind. 1293 01:23:58,241 --> 01:23:59,647 How does he know it's safe? 1294 01:24:00,459 --> 01:24:02,039 What is the signal? 1295 01:24:03,257 --> 01:24:05,210 A lantern in the attic window. 1296 01:24:05,842 --> 01:24:07,919 Waved up and down for danger... 1297 01:24:08,550 --> 01:24:10,818 across the window when all is clear. 1298 01:24:13,330 --> 01:24:15,043 Come on. sergeant. 1299 01:24:34,057 --> 01:24:36,622 That is the wrong signal, Lady Blakeney. 1300 01:24:38,436 --> 01:24:40,687 That will keep Sir Percy away! 1301 01:24:47,732 --> 01:24:49,147 This is the right one. 1302 01:24:49,424 --> 01:24:51,178 This will bring him here. 1303 01:24:52,042 --> 01:24:54,062 I can see you are longing to see him 1304 01:24:54,089 --> 01:24:55,694 As I am myself. 1305 01:24:58,082 --> 01:25:00,415 What a great actor Sir Percy is. 1306 01:25:00,700 --> 01:25:02,397 A thousand ways to cheat 1307 01:25:02,424 --> 01:25:05,324 the poor, stupid officials of the Republic. 1308 01:25:05,627 --> 01:25:08,681 Look, costumes, wigs, paint. 1309 01:25:09,695 --> 01:25:11,292 What will he be next? 1310 01:25:11,733 --> 01:25:15,339 In what disguise will he arrive when the clock strikes 10? 1311 01:25:15,942 --> 01:25:18,648 I must arrange a reassuring atmosphere for him. 1312 01:25:20,713 --> 01:25:22,119 An old woman? 1313 01:25:22,179 --> 01:25:23,643 No, he has overdone that. 1314 01:25:25,227 --> 01:25:26,749 A priest... 1315 01:25:28,002 --> 01:25:29,624 What could be more harmless? 1316 01:25:30,003 --> 01:25:32,977 And so useful when it comes to the last offices. 1317 01:25:34,088 --> 01:25:35,403 Sergeant... 1318 01:25:36,109 --> 01:25:38,694 You shall have the privilege of watching over the Republic's 1319 01:25:38,721 --> 01:25:41,494 most charming prisoner for the rest of the evening. 1320 01:25:43,391 --> 01:25:44,492 Milady. 1321 01:25:48,464 --> 01:25:49,951 - Duroc - Citizen? 1322 01:25:49,978 --> 01:25:50,994 Everything ready? 1323 01:25:51,021 --> 01:25:53,430 The dragoons should be here at any moment. 1324 01:25:53,457 --> 01:25:55,744 Arrange for a firing squad as soon as they arrive. 1325 01:25:55,771 --> 01:25:58,111 Are you so certain you'll get him? 1326 01:25:58,138 --> 01:25:59,147 Quite. 1327 01:25:59,580 --> 01:26:02,345 Thanks to a charming friend I found in there. 1328 01:26:10,748 --> 01:26:12,610 - What time is it? - Quarter to 10. 1329 01:26:12,638 --> 01:26:14,847 Remember, he has to think his way is clear. 1330 01:26:14,874 --> 01:26:16,941 He must not suspect anything until he's in the trap. 1331 01:27:10,156 --> 01:27:11,470 Good evening, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1332 01:27:11,497 --> 01:27:13,385 How nice of you to wait up for me. 1333 01:27:15,015 --> 01:27:16,125 Well... 1334 01:27:16,152 --> 01:27:18,692 I had no idea you were in holy order. 1335 01:27:19,342 --> 01:27:21,221 This is only an innocent masquerade 1336 01:27:21,248 --> 01:27:22,968 like so many of your own, Sir Percy. 1337 01:27:22,995 --> 01:27:24,913 Ah, but mine were successful. 1338 01:27:24,940 --> 01:27:27,183 Mine may prove successful yet. 1339 01:27:27,789 --> 01:27:29,683 You walked in here quite freely 1340 01:27:29,827 --> 01:27:31,490 but you won't walk out a free man. 1341 01:27:32,264 --> 01:27:34,324 A prophet now, Monsieur Chauvelin. 1342 01:27:34,352 --> 01:27:36,818 The time for laughing is past, Sir Percy. 1343 01:27:37,319 --> 01:27:39,123 I've sought for a year. 1344 01:27:39,327 --> 01:27:40,923 Your energy, your ingenuity 1345 01:27:40,950 --> 01:27:43,413 your audacity have been quite admirable. 1346 01:27:43,955 --> 01:27:45,362 But now... 1347 01:27:45,493 --> 01:27:46,734 The game is up! 1348 01:27:47,068 --> 01:27:49,593 Because all the trumps are in your hand, eh? 1349 01:27:49,838 --> 01:27:51,046 Precisely. 1350 01:27:51,274 --> 01:27:53,577 This house is surrounded by my soldiers. 1351 01:27:53,604 --> 01:27:54,945 I've only to raise my voice 1352 01:27:54,972 --> 01:27:57,322 Yes, yes, I see your point. 1353 01:27:57,594 --> 01:27:59,216 I see your point. 1354 01:28:00,067 --> 01:28:01,557 But suppose... 1355 01:28:01,699 --> 01:28:03,445 Suppose I could reach a door? 1356 01:28:04,946 --> 01:28:06,312 The night is black. 1357 01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:08,243 The sea is mine. 1358 01:28:08,658 --> 01:28:10,363 I make a dash! 1359 01:28:11,657 --> 01:28:13,155 I don't make a dash. 1360 01:28:14,632 --> 01:28:15,972 I don't need to. 1361 01:28:17,019 --> 01:28:18,988 Because one of my friends might shoot you... 1362 01:28:20,234 --> 01:28:21,989 From behind, hidden in that clock! 1363 01:28:24,751 --> 01:28:27,821 Oh, come now... No one really hides in a clock. 1364 01:28:28,710 --> 01:28:29,934 Besides... 1365 01:28:30,938 --> 01:28:32,643 I still have... 1366 01:28:33,059 --> 01:28:36,005 One more avenue of escape... 1367 01:28:36,555 --> 01:28:37,905 Open to me. 1368 01:28:38,521 --> 01:28:39,796 Don't move! 1369 01:28:40,597 --> 01:28:41,525 Gunpowder! 1370 01:28:41,552 --> 01:28:43,017 If I drop this in here... 1371 01:28:43,044 --> 01:28:44,650 I fly straight to heaven. 1372 01:28:44,873 --> 01:28:46,717 And you know where you fly to. 1373 01:28:57,209 --> 01:28:59,362 Don't be alarmed Monsieur Chauvelin. 1374 01:28:59,922 --> 01:29:01,684 It's not gunpowder. 1375 01:29:07,781 --> 01:29:09,180 Thank you Wilmot. 1376 01:29:09,206 --> 01:29:11,051 You just arrived in time. 1377 01:29:11,510 --> 01:29:14,283 I've had five delightful minutes with Monsieur Chauvelin. 1378 01:29:14,436 --> 01:29:17,606 I trust there was time enough to get Armand and de Tournay into safety. 1379 01:29:17,641 --> 01:29:19,182 Yes, they're safe. 1380 01:29:19,265 --> 01:29:20,315 Good. 1381 01:29:20,781 --> 01:29:22,246 Now we need five minutes. 1382 01:29:22,579 --> 01:29:24,358 Then I shan't trouble you anymore. 1383 01:29:24,571 --> 01:29:25,630 For the moment. 1384 01:29:25,657 --> 01:29:27,452 We must have the password, Percy. 1385 01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:28,779 The password. 1386 01:29:29,090 --> 01:29:30,828 Do we have to use force? 1387 01:29:32,386 --> 01:29:33,967 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1388 01:29:34,321 --> 01:29:36,530 The password is, "The Channel is Free". 1389 01:29:36,654 --> 01:29:37,672 Splendid! 1390 01:29:37,699 --> 01:29:38,655 Wilmot... 1391 01:29:38,682 --> 01:29:40,280 You get them onto the ship. 1392 01:29:40,515 --> 01:29:42,941 I'll take care of our friend and join you in a minute. 1393 01:29:46,945 --> 01:29:48,757 That was quite sensible of you... 1394 01:29:48,945 --> 01:29:50,103 Monsieur Chauvelin. 1395 01:29:50,130 --> 01:29:51,598 Not at all, Sir Percy. 1396 01:29:51,625 --> 01:29:52,675 You may go... 1397 01:29:52,702 --> 01:29:55,299 Because I know you'll come back of your own free will. 1398 01:29:55,980 --> 01:29:58,586 You overestimate the charm of your society. 1399 01:29:58,777 --> 01:30:02,102 I told you once, the time for jesting was over. 1400 01:30:03,253 --> 01:30:05,520 I have all the trumps in my hand. 1401 01:30:05,879 --> 01:30:08,734 In that room upstairs, there's a woman under arrest 1402 01:30:08,924 --> 01:30:12,334 who has forfeited her life by aiding the enemies of the Republic. 1403 01:30:14,171 --> 01:30:15,139 What woman? 1404 01:30:15,167 --> 01:30:16,687 Lady Blakeney. 1405 01:30:22,770 --> 01:30:24,723 Is the game up, Sir Percy? 1406 01:30:25,432 --> 01:30:27,626 Is this the last adventure? 1407 01:30:31,872 --> 01:30:33,345 I give up, Chauvelin. 1408 01:30:36,676 --> 01:30:38,033 What next? 1409 01:30:38,192 --> 01:30:40,666 There is a firing squad outside. 1410 01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:43,907 And my wife? 1411 01:30:44,050 --> 01:30:46,151 The Revolutionary Tribunal. 1412 01:30:46,470 --> 01:30:47,959 That means death! 1413 01:30:48,177 --> 01:30:51,181 It would have meant my death if I had not caught you! 1414 01:30:54,427 --> 01:30:56,165 Don't be alarmed, Sir Percy. 1415 01:30:57,335 --> 01:30:59,189 I don't want your wife's life. 1416 01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:01,624 She's free the moment you die. 1417 01:31:03,656 --> 01:31:05,220 I offer you a pact. 1418 01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:11,531 If you promise to say nothing to her... 1419 01:31:12,197 --> 01:31:14,388 If you'll send her on to my ship immediately... 1420 01:31:15,446 --> 01:31:17,655 I'll walk up in front of your firing squad. 1421 01:31:22,949 --> 01:31:24,248 I accept. 1422 01:31:25,434 --> 01:31:26,701 Sergeant! 1423 01:31:28,238 --> 01:31:29,785 Bring milady down. 1424 01:31:34,116 --> 01:31:35,391 Percy! 1425 01:31:42,713 --> 01:31:44,700 I wanted to give my life to save you. 1426 01:31:44,727 --> 01:31:47,049 - Forgive me, Percy. - My dear, it's nothing! 1427 01:31:47,045 --> 01:31:48,601 I'm in no danger. 1428 01:31:55,523 --> 01:31:56,673 Percy. 1429 01:31:57,505 --> 01:31:58,855 I want to... 1430 01:31:59,602 --> 01:32:01,076 I want to die with you! 1431 01:32:03,502 --> 01:32:05,000 Don't move, Chauvelin. 1432 01:32:06,117 --> 01:32:08,417 Our parting would be too cruel, even for you. 1433 01:32:09,497 --> 01:32:11,541 Just take her out while she's still unconscious. 1434 01:32:12,207 --> 01:32:14,168 My boat should be at the point by now. 1435 01:32:15,811 --> 01:32:17,268 Good bye, my sweet. 1436 01:32:18,718 --> 01:32:19,934 It's good to know that... 1437 01:32:20,673 --> 01:32:22,072 That you loved me... 1438 01:32:22,339 --> 01:32:23,695 A little. 1439 01:32:39,322 --> 01:32:40,464 Duroc! 1440 01:32:40,830 --> 01:32:43,479 Send this lady to the English ship around the point. 1441 01:32:43,507 --> 01:32:45,923 If anybody attempts to land, shoot! 1442 01:32:46,208 --> 01:32:47,367 Yes, Citizen. 1443 01:32:47,610 --> 01:32:49,149 You two go with him. 1444 01:33:01,512 --> 01:33:03,639 Do you like poetry, Monsieur Chauvelin? 1445 01:33:03,888 --> 01:33:06,045 "That damned elusive Pimpernel". 1446 01:33:06,072 --> 01:33:09,905 No, no... I mean, uh, poetry. 1447 01:33:13,044 --> 01:33:15,618 "This other Eden, demiparadise" 1448 01:33:16,451 --> 01:33:18,777 "This fortress built by nature for herself" 1449 01:33:18,804 --> 01:33:21,660 "Against infection and the hand of war" 1450 01:33:24,173 --> 01:33:26,292 "This happy breed of men" 1451 01:33:26,361 --> 01:33:27,950 "This little world" 1452 01:33:29,609 --> 01:33:33,473 "This precious stone, set in the silver sea" 1453 01:33:35,016 --> 01:33:36,837 "This blessed plot" 1454 01:33:37,254 --> 01:33:38,496 "This earth" 1455 01:33:38,686 --> 01:33:40,184 "This realm" 1456 01:33:41,866 --> 01:33:43,380 "This England" 1457 01:33:45,869 --> 01:33:47,756 Oh, damn me, I forget the rest. 1458 01:33:48,714 --> 01:33:51,256 Firing party, halt! 1459 01:33:51,333 --> 01:33:52,988 Left turn! 1460 01:33:53,394 --> 01:33:55,181 Ground muskets! 1461 01:33:56,278 --> 01:33:57,660 Duroc! 1462 01:34:05,697 --> 01:34:08,892 Zounds, now it appears I shan't have time to remember. 1463 01:34:32,306 --> 01:34:33,853 Shoulder muskets! 1464 01:34:35,023 --> 01:34:36,256 Left turn! 1465 01:34:36,937 --> 01:34:38,186 Quick march! 1466 01:34:46,927 --> 01:34:48,350 Ready! 1467 01:34:52,661 --> 01:34:53,599 Present. 1468 01:34:53,748 --> 01:34:54,948 Present! 1469 01:34:57,026 --> 01:34:57,964 Fire. 1470 01:34:58,080 --> 01:34:59,692 Fire! 1471 01:35:09,991 --> 01:35:11,256 Finished? 1472 01:35:11,515 --> 01:35:14,718 I'm so sorry, Monsieur Chauvelin, I had to come back for my hat. 1473 01:35:14,745 --> 01:35:17,005 It's such a cursed good hat, you know. 1474 01:35:20,768 --> 01:35:22,771 Now, now, don't look at me like that! 1475 01:35:23,347 --> 01:35:25,655 Sink me, if you don't think I'm my own ghost. 1476 01:35:26,271 --> 01:35:27,521 Duroc! 1477 01:35:27,548 --> 01:35:28,797 Captain Duroc? 1478 01:35:29,538 --> 01:35:31,135 I'm afraid it will be an hour or so 1479 01:35:31,162 --> 01:35:34,350 before poor Captain Duroc will be able to resume his duty. 1480 01:35:36,333 --> 01:35:39,023 I regret that I struck him rather violently. 1481 01:35:39,732 --> 01:35:40,973 Seize him! 1482 01:35:41,001 --> 01:35:44,352 Always so impulsive, my dear Monsieur Chauvelin. 1483 01:35:46,919 --> 01:35:48,345 This, ah... 1484 01:35:48,372 --> 01:35:50,262 is my firing squad. 1485 01:35:50,289 --> 01:35:52,633 Allow me to present Ffoulkes, Dewhurst... 1486 01:35:52,660 --> 01:35:54,912 Hastings, Belville, and the rest. 1487 01:35:55,050 --> 01:35:57,169 But of course you know all about them. 1488 01:35:58,778 --> 01:36:00,904 You look rather excited, Chauvelin. 1489 01:36:01,435 --> 01:36:03,206 I think you need cooling down. 1490 01:36:03,657 --> 01:36:04,807 So... 1491 01:36:16,111 --> 01:36:18,047 Just a peaceful little nap... 1492 01:36:18,458 --> 01:36:20,716 Like we had in the Grenville library. 1493 01:36:44,553 --> 01:36:46,538 Are we really free, Percy? 1494 01:36:46,890 --> 01:36:48,603 Not you, darling. 1495 01:36:49,168 --> 01:36:51,998 Chauvelin said you'd be free the moment I died. 1496 01:36:54,784 --> 01:36:56,828 It won't be a moment sooner. 1497 01:36:59,002 --> 01:37:01,575 Land ahead! 1498 01:37:02,546 --> 01:37:04,044 Look, Marguerite! 1499 01:37:04,858 --> 01:37:06,191 England!104789